"To Coy His Mistress" Poetry Explication
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 04:00:23
Category: / Literature / North American
Length: 1 pages (396 words)
Category: / Literature / North American
Length: 1 pages (396 words)
Had we but world enough, and time, (if we were to live forever I'd seduce you)
This coyness, lady, were no crime. (Ln 1-2 interruption, comfortable with slowness of time)
We would sit down, and think which way
To walk, and pass our long love's day.
Thou by the Indian Ganges' side (formal and refers to human geography to flatter)
Shouldst rubies find: I by the tide
Of Humber would complain I would
Love you …
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…now, like amorous birds of prey, (bold, aggression; stirs up mistress's passion)
Rather at once our time devour
Than languish in his slow-chapped power,
Let us roll all our strength and all (in a hurry)
Our sweetness up into one ball,
And tear our pleasures with rough strife
Thorough the iron gates of life:
Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.
Tone: ribald, lusty, insincere, lighthearted, melancholy
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