Thursday, February 28, 2013

To His Coy Mistress

Well I am going to be real about my interpretation of To His Coy Mistress. My understanding is this, so there is this king (maybe) of some sort. I think he is probably a Persian king because the speaker says, " by the Indian Ganges' side...by the tide of the Humber..." My understanding is that these rivers mark the ends of the Persian empire. Now, this king is getting old and probably about to croak, but this man is like the forty year old virgin or something like that. This king is in love with this beautiful girl who has these breasts that take two hundred men to appreciate. The king wants to get it on with this girl, but she is being "coy." So that brings us to why he wrote this poem. The king is using poetry to seduce this girl into sleeping with him. His ultimate reason for getting this girl to sleep with him is that when they make love it's going to be hotter than the sun. Marvell makes it pretty clear in this poem that this guy really wants this girl, really badly.

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