Comment on the Ideas, Images and Poetic effects that particuarly interested you in "To His Coy Mistress".

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Comment on the Ideas, Images and Poetic effects that particuarly interested you in “To His Coy Mistress”

Andrew Marvell throughout his poem “To His Coy Mistress” uses many interesting poetic effects to capture his audience and to show his feelings.

Marvell’s poem is basically a light hearted letter to his mistress. Throughout he is persuading his Mistress to stop delaying the event of losing her virginity, and to let him fulfil his fantasies of doing this.

From the offset he has split his poem into 3 radically different stanzas like a syllogism. The first section taking time to show his mistress If he had the time he would spend all the time she wanted to build up to the event. “Two hundred to adore each breast:/ But thirty thousand to the rest.” [Lines 15-16]. The verb tense he uses here is conditional. This shows it might not be possible to do as he says.

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Shortly into the second section of the poem, he shows that this is probably not possible and they will have to do things quicker. “But at my back I always hear / Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near:” The words in which he now uses are now talking about the future somewhat. He is showing her that this is not possible and pointing out however that they do not have time on their side. He shows it would not be possible to take so long adoring each breast as such time does not exist. “Time’s wingèd chariot” hurrying near represents ...

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