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To His Coy Mistress Diction

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“To his Coy Mistress” is a famous poem written by Andrew Marvell in which the author addresses this poem for his mistress. In the poem, the author intents to persuade his mistress to sleep with him and to leave all ideas of preserving her beauty. To achieve his goal, the author introduces a number amount of literal devices through every one of the three stanzas.
In the first stanza, the author introduces imagery by describing the numerous years it would require him to admire every single detail of his lady’s beautiful body. Explaining that it would demand a long time to admire her adequate preserved body. The author states in lines 9-10 “And you should, if you please, refuse/ Till the conversion of the Jews.” which constructs an allusion to the final times …show more content…

The author introduces a simile when stating that “Now therefore, while the youthful hue/ Sits on thy skin like morning glew,” (33-34) indicating that the skin of the Lady is compared with a morning glow being beautifully bright. “Pore with instant fires” referring to the Lady’s passion that cannot hold on anymore. That just like the author, the Lady should stop with the struggle of preserving her body and cease herself to her passions. The author introduces another simile in line 38 when he states: “And now, like amorous birds of prey,” indicating his point where he believes that they should be like birds that do not wait. The author uses personification when approaching the sun in the last two lines of the poem. Giving the sun the ability to stand still and run. The sun represents times when it moves in the sky, they might not be able to stop the sun from moving and accelerating the time they have on this earth. On the other hand, they can speed time up by making the sun run to appear at the point where the Lady decides to be with the

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