Persuading their Mistresses in The Flea and To His Coy Mistress

In the poem he veers from any pattern and words like, "abject louse," and "maggot," followed his reputation of having an angry diction. His work is completely impulsive which was seen as exotic and passionate, which certainly reflected the period. In his poetry he was said by Norton to stay away from, "making any sense or reason," (Saintsbury, 50).

The last few lines in the poem are sentience that have been chopped up into different lines, to help

The poem is a free verse with no firm beat following the lines of the poem. The lines are mostly comprised of enjambment lines, so there is no real end to them. The speaker starts his reflection off with 2 examples of alliteration. The speaker is remembering his “first time [he] walked / With a girl, [he]

The fact that enjambment is used throughout the poem such as in the lines, “like a colour slide or press an ear against its hive” portrays a lack of structure and therefore emphasizes the initial enjoyment one feels when reading a poem before the chore of analyzing it begins. This is also emphasized through the fact that the poem is a free verse poem.

Throughout the poem, the author creates different tones using different types of figurative language and diction. The poet starts off the poem with the metaphor, “Although she feeds me

In the Red Lotus of chastity, two characters Devasmita and the nun are implementing the same concept from the Machiavelli’s “The Prince”. They followed the Machiavellian concept of being a lion and a fox. Devasmita was Guhasena’s wife and while her husband was far a way from her they promised each other to keep red louts in their hand. Whoever commits adultery in the absence of the other; the lotus will wither away and will be unfaithful. The nun was planning to undo the chastity of Devasmita while Devasmita was trying hard to protect it. Both Devasmita and the nun acted cleverly as a fox. However, Devasmita continued acting like super fox until she rescues her husband from death, while the nun ended up acting like a lion.

Many other internal rhymes are also found within the lines of the poem. In fact, the first line of the poem contains an internal rhyme “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary”. Another example is found in Line 31 which reads “Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning,” The poem is rife with such examples.

The first quote I am talking about is going to be "Back into my chamber turning,all my soul within me burning." With this he is talking about heading back into his room feeling sad because he was hoping Lenore would be the one at the door and when it was not her he felt sad even though he knew she was dead. The next quote I am going to talk about is "Not the least obeisance made he..." With this quote he is saying that the bird is a unwanted guest and that the bird does not care that he is unwanted. With these quotes he is adding layers to the poem as well as explain more about how he feels inside as well as about the

He uses this in the poem to give it rhythm to engage the reader and

bed and then tells of how the woman still kills the flea but how the

In the third stanza, a lot of imagery is used. The significant ones are present in the seventh and eleventh lines. In the first line, the poet writes, "A

I think that during the end of the first stanza the poet starts to become quite theatrical. "Yet this enjoys it before it woo, And pamper'd swells in one blood made of two; And this, alas! Is more than we would do." This could be referring to sex.

The very first stanza of the Gioia’s poem sets the tone for the poem, which was melancholy, with the imagery the author uses.

Andrew Marvell's elaborate sixteenth century carpe diem poem, 'To His Coy Mistress', not only speaks to his coy mistress, but also to the reader. Marvell's suggests to his coy mistress that time is inevitably rapidly progressing and for this he wishes for her to reciprocate his desires and to initiate a sexual relationship. Marvell simultaneously suggests to the reader that he or she should act upon their desires as well, to hesitate no longer and seize the moment before time, and ultimately life, expires. Marvell makes use of allusion, metaphor, and grand imagery in order to convey a mood of majestic endurance and innovatively explicate the carpe diem motif.

Because the poem is long, it won’t be quoted extensively here, but it is attached at the end of the paper for ease of reference. Instead, the paper will analyze the poetic elements in the work, stanza by stanza. First, because the poem is being read on-line, it’s not possible to say for certain that each stanza is a particular number of lines long. Each of several versions looks different on the screen; that is, there is no pattern to the number of lines in each stanza. However, the stanzas are more like paragraphs in a letter than