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    To His Coy Mistress

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    To his Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell is about a man's lust for a woman. The narrator uses terms like coy to describe his mistress. He also describes sex by using the word ball. The narrator also compares their love to a vegetable that is steadily growing. The narrator uses words wisely in his appeal to his lover. The narrator is trying to rush her into making a decision about loving him. The narrator called his love interest "coy" because she wouldn't commit to him. The definition of coy is

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    "To His Coy Mistress"

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    "To His Coy Mistress" Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress is a sieze the moment kind of poem in which an anonomyous young man tries to woo the hand of his mistress. This kind of poem gives the reader the idea that time is not only precious, but scarce. The speaker uses many smooth tatics to persuade the young girl, starting with compliments and ending with a more forceful, morbid appraoch. "To His Coy Mistress" is not only witty but imgagistic, full of wordplay, and percieved differently by both

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    To His Coy Mistress

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    To His Coy Mistress is a dramatic monologue consisting of three parts of which all three sections are pointed arguments by the speaker in an attempt to get this “coy mistress” into bed. In the first section, the speaker laments that there is not enough time for his mistress’ attempts at shyness and virtue, and that such pretenses should be abandoned. However, the speaker continues, that if there were enough time, his love would transcend time and grow “vaster than empires” (599). He concludes this

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    His Coy Mistress Approach

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    Historical approach of “To his Coy Mistress” Andrew Marvell is a well-known poetic writer of 17th century. He has written hundreds of poem in his time. When he was in Yorkshire seat of the Fairfax family, he was supported to write his noble poems. One of those is “Upon Appleton House”. Thus poem was dedicated by Marvell to the Fairfax family. It is about public service and the search for personal sight. Most of the poems of Marvell is a quest to his development as a man and as a poet. On the same

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    His Coy Mistress Tone

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    need to save their time and enjoy their life when they are young. Both “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell and “To the Virgins, To Make much of time” by Robert Herrick both examines the idea of carpe diem. However, the way that the two speakers elaborate their point is slightly different. The speaker in the poem “To His coy Mistress” use more passive tone to let people have more thinkings of life. “To His Coy Mistress” by Marvell states the idea that if people want to fall in love with others

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    To His Coy Mistress Compare and Contrast “To His Coy Mistress” By John Donne. “To His Coy Mistress” and “ To His Mistress Going to bed” are two poems that feature “carpe diem”; they are also written by two of the most well known metaphysical poets. Andrew Marvell, the author of “To His Coy Mistress” and John Donne, the writer of “To His Mistress Going To Bed”. Both poems were written through the 16th and 17th Century, where love and sex were describe as two different things. 16th and 17th

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    Upon first glance, Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” presents a simple seduction, as the speaker uses the passage of time in a straightforward attempt to get his mistress to sleep with him. Using the threat of inevitable death as a way of urging his mistress to seize the day and have sex with him, the speaker makes time appear all-powerful and controlling for much of the poem. Marvell explores the theme of time differently in “An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland,” as the speaker

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    Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress,” written in the year 1681, gives readers the implication that he was a man with progressive ideas about sex that lack concern for the common ideals and moral standards of his lifetime. Marvell’s ideas and phrases in this poem have an honest and realistic basis. He does not sugarcoat what he is trying to say, yet he is able to poetically and coercively make his point known to his potential mate. Opposing styles of appeal in parts one and two blossoms into an

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    Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress,” written in the year 1681, gives readers the implication that he was a man with progressive ideas about sex that lack concern for the common ideals and moral standards of his lifetime. Marvell’s ideas and phrases in this poem have an honest and realistic basis. He does not sugarcoat what he is trying to say, yet he is able to poetically and coercively make his point known to his potential mate. The speaker’s opposing styles of appeal in parts one and two blossom

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    live to their fullest. In both “To His Coy Mistress” and “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” the author mentions how they should live like it’s their last day and to make the best out of it. Also beauty takes a big role in both poems and how one day it will fade, so for them to take advantage of it now before it fades. In “To His Coy Mistress” it’s about a guy trying to conquer the love of a mistress. He tells her how much time he will wait for her and his love will endure forever as long as

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