What does the poem, "To his Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell, mean? can anyone explain it to me? i need help understanding it for an english project.
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mikol
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I've read it before. Isn't that a carpe diem poem where the guy tries to get the woman to sleep with him cause he says they will soon be old and then die and have worms eating their flesh?
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To his coy mistress is about sexual feelings and infatuation, based on the Italian tradition of courtly love - it is filled with compliments and references to sexual activity and deviancy but is generally a one sided love, the whole poem is about the man wooing the woman and persuading her that she should have sex with him. Throughout the first stanza the poet writes how he would love the woman, had they had all the time in the world. The love is much exaggerated. "I would love you ten years before the flood"
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