will rogers
“To His Coy Mistress” is a dramatic monologue, in which the speaker addressed to his lady.In this poem, there are argument and counter-argument, as well as a conclusion. The poem is also different from conventional courtly love poetry, because in the first two stanzas,the speaker used a lot of exaggeration of time and space. The first stanza is the part of argument. From line 1 to 4, the speaker expressed his wish that if he and his lady had enough time, he would take the conventional way to praise and court his lady. But in the following lines, exaggeration of time and space make it clear that conventional way of courtship is simply impossible for them, and such exaggeration serves as an irony to conventional ways of courtship. First, from line 5-10,the speaker used the distance between the Indian Granges and Humber to represent the vast space,and the length of time is suggested by “ten years before the flood… till the conversion of the Jews. ” In line 11 and 12, the word, “vegetable” implies the slowly growing sense of the speaker’s love; “vaster than empires and more slow”again shows the exaggeration of space and time. the speaker said he would use hundreds of years to praise his lover’s di
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Approximate Word count = 1676
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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