Samantha Shayevich
September 25th 2006
E5X: Poetry Analysis
-To His Coy Mistress-
In the beginning of the poem, the speaker explains to his mistress how much he would love to live forever just to admire her every beauty and show her how much he loves her. He goes on to explain that he has loved her even prior to the start of eternity and even if she resists his love, he still will not mind and his love for her will continue to grow. A few lines later he continues to talk about his everlasting love. He begins to divide his love up between her body parts. He promises to her that he will dedicate a hundred years to her eyes. Then he tells her that he would dedicate two hundred to each breast. Here you begin to see how his mind begins to shift toward sex. He begins to shift his thoughts from her eyes to her body. He is very nonchalant about it. After the comment about her breasts he says and thirty to the rest. He is trying to be smooth about it, but in the next stanza we begin to see his patience giving out.