"To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell

Question 1

paraphrase

Answer 1

the poem e.g., the speaking, a young man, says that if he had all the time in the world he would love deeply, he would demonstrate acts of love, but he knows that he does not have all of the time in the word. instead, he puts pressure on his significant other to speed up the pace of their relationship

Question 2

evaluate organization

Answer 2

• lines 1-20: admiring what he would do with time

- lines 20-end: what he does because he doesn’t have time

Question 3

determine tone

Answer 3

• may be urgent, admiring, flattering tone
• word choice that develops this tone:
• • sit down, and think which way to walk, and pass our long loves day
• • i would love you ten years before the flood
• • he would wait for his vegetable love to grow
• • 100 years should go to praise you
• • he uses years many times in the poem to build anticipation toward the poetic shift

Question 4

tone of poem AFTER the shift

Answer 4

impatience and desperation

Question 5

overall tone of this poetry

Answer 5

• patient and urgent

- admiration and impatience

Question 6

tone

Answer 6

attitude of the speaker towards the subject

Question 7

the grave’s a fine and private place,

but none, i think, do there embrace

Answer 7

the speaker is urging his love to get

Question 8

how does the poet’s use of numbers play a role in the message of this poem

Answer 8

the speaker uses larger and larger numbers

Question 9

my vegetable love should grow vaster than empires, and more slow

Answer 9

the speaker’s love will grow like a nourished vegetable

Question 10

what does the P in TPCASTT stand for

Answer 10

paraphrasing