To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell Essay

In the first section of To His Coy Mistress, the speaker is attempting lure a woman to bed. The speaker laments the lack of time for his mistress’ attempts at shyness and virtue, but he also he places great emphasis on his love for her. Indeed, there is an overarching theme that time is short throughout the entire poem, but in the first section, he focuses how infinitely his love could grow if time were unlimited. He concludes this section by saying “For, lady, you deserve this state, / Nor would I love at lower rate” (600). The final line here is especially interesting as “rate” again invokes thoughts of time.

     Another aspect of his poetry is that in many, he has no specific rhythm. There may be one short line, and then a line that takes up three times as much space. The only thing that really connects them is the rhyme. An example of this is two lines from Peekabo, I Almost See You: “So over his facetiousness let us skim, / Only noting that he has been waiting for you ever since you said Good evening to his grandfather clock under the

24). This rhyme helps to flow the emotion from the speaker to the reader. The reader senses the

excuse so as to force him to take the baby, if he wants sex; however

The Poetic Device is Repetition.This poetic device impacts the song by giving you an image what are the people doing. Evidence

Wilbur begins his poem by describing the movements off a ball. He writes, “ a ball will bounce; but less and less”. Wilbur uses the words themselves in this line to create a rhythmic pattern to mirror the movements of the ball. By using this series of short syllable words it makes the reader vocalize the ball's movement. Another example of

In the poem, “To His Coy Mistress,” by Andrew Marvell, The narrator is writing a letter to a woman he is courting, which the storyteller feels that life is short and this woman needs to stop showing mixed feelings towards him, to know her true feelings. The narrator is convinced that there is not enough time for this woman to be shy, regarding her feelings to him, in addition to, his opinion of believing that he is the best man for her, but if this woman does not feel the same way, then let the narrator live his life and to not make him wait for a decision from her. The message of this poem that is conveyed by the author, life is too short to wait on someone else’s decision of whether a person feels the same way, or if they are being timid about how they feel about someone.

Cummings makes the reader understand more of the poem by using Visual Techniques by making the words look like they are something and not just lines. Cummings makes the words come alive by making them look

The poet uses cacophony where words are rhymed contribute to the whimsical effect of the work. An

The faster pace and constant beats provide for a significant change from the broken up stand still qualities of the first stanza. The mood portrayed here is that of eventfulness, even usefulness, it is apparent that the speaker feels more fulfilled or somehow more whole.

His poem is written in quatrains, with each quatrain containing two couplets. This makes the poem easier to read both visually and due to the rhyme. He

The energy in the poem sways back in forth to the structure of the poem. As the words are pushed

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.

happens to one of them or if one of them dies. He says he wants them

is not very strong as he doesn’t value her enough to even take note of