To His Coy Mistress Diction

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“To his Coy Mistress” is a famous poem written by Andrew Martel in which the author wrote this poem for his mistress. In the poem, the author intents to persuade his mistress to sleep with him. To achieve his goal, the author introduces many literal devices through every one of the three stanzas. In the first stanza, the author introduces imagery by describing how many years it would take him to admire every single part of his lady’s beautiful body. Explaining that it would take a long time to admire her well preserve body. “And you should, if you please, refuse till the conversion of the Jews.” Make an allusion to the final times that is described in the Bible. By stating this, the author states that if they had unlimited amount of time, she could refuse being with him until the final days of this world. The author also makes an allusion to “Humber” which is one of the longest bridges that exists, referring to the distance that he could be at to contemplate her beauty if they had enough time to keep such a long distance. When the author states: “My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow.” The author …show more content…

In which the acceleration of time does not stops and will rush through their lives. In this paragraph the author states his point that their time will get to the finish line and that from that point on they have lost their opportunity to satisfy their personal desires. “Time's winged chariot hurrying near” gives an image in which time come in a chariot finding them living in an idea of eternity. “Then worms shall try that long preserv'd virginity, And your quaint honour turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust.” The author provides the image of worms eating the Lady’s well preserve body and later turning into dust. For the author, all of his desires that are on fire will become ashes after all the time that he has to wait for the Lady’s

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