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Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress"
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The consensus was that the poem's speaker is attempting to persuade "His Coy Mistress" to have sex with him. The speaker seems frustrated, impatient, and to feel a sense of urgency in pursuing this goal.
Some students argued that the speaker's words are mostly empty rhetoric--that he doesn't nece ....
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....: Women are silent objects of men's desires, and men use their education and verbal skill to attempt to "conquer" (some people even said "acquire") women sexually. Even in the view that the poem promotes the couple's spirituality, the speaker must "win over" his "mistress" so that she accepts a relationship with him on his terms. Obviously this view is not the only possible one on gender relations. As the semester progresses, we'll compare this poem's portrayal of gender relations to those in ot.... |
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