To his coy mistress
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- Created on: 17-05-18 14:44
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- To his Coy Mistress - Andrew Marvell
- Metaphysical
- Syllogism
- logical and coherent argument
- 3 stanzas
- If we had time... we don't have time... lets make the most of time
- Death imagery - grotesque imagery
- love vs. time
- time is more powerful than love
- Carper Diem poetry
- published posthumously
- Cavalier-esque
- Ganges River imagery - considered holy - pure and pristine
- Blazon - focusing on her physicality
- sexual imagery - "vegetable love" BUT it could also be referring to the fertility and nurture
- Explicitly religious - it would be sacrilege to not sleep together
- going against the time - sex before marriage sinful
- renaissance poetry
- rhyming couplets - togetherness they should be together
- enjambment - hurried = the time is still passing and passing quickly
- dramatic uninterrupted monologue
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