"To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell Flashcards

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paraphrase

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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

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evaluate organization

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

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

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determine tone

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  • 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
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tone of poem AFTER the shift

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impatience and desperation

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overall tone of this poetry

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  • patient and urgent

- admiration and impatience

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tone

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attitude of the speaker towards the subject

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the grave’s a fine and private place,

but none, i think, do there embrace

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the speaker is urging his love to get

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

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the speaker uses larger and larger numbers

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

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the speaker’s love will grow like a nourished vegetable

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what does the P in TPCASTT stand for

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paraphrasing

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