Analysis Of To His Coy Mistress

Analysis of To His Coy Mistress

“To His Coy Mistress” is a very, in my opinion, different poem. The main story of the poem is about this man who tries to pick up this very beautiful women. I assume that it took place in a bar or club setting. The poem did not give a setting. Just by the way he is talking to her, its relevant that it’s not in a library or coffee shop. I love the fact that we see the poem through the eyes of this man. And by doing that it gives us a really good glimpse of what he is thinking willing to do. I think this helps bring the reader to the poem and understand it more. By the end of the poem, you come to find out that this man is becoming quite desperate.

In the first part of the poem, we see this man urging to make his first move. He begins to tell her how they could pass their days just by loving each other and how he wants so badly to spend eternity with her. For example:

“My vegetable love grows should grow

Vaster than empires, and more slow.”

In these two lines, he is trying to explain how much his love grows for her every time he sees her. He is willing to love her until the end of time and keep on loving her after. Later on, he is still talking about his everlasting love. He soon begins to divide HIS love between her body parts. He then promises her one hundred years to her eyes and then two hundred years to her breasts and thirty years to the rest. Here you begin to see how his mind changes for normal to sex mode and he acts as if time is running out. I think right now he knows that the woman has no interest in him and his patience is running out. So he gets even more desperate then before.

In the second stanza we soon see the man’s personality shift dramatically. He goes from being a gentleman that could spend the rest of your life with and eternity to a person whose time is coming to an end really quickly. It was almost as if he was insulting her when he commented on her virginity:

“My echoing song: then worms shall try

That long-preserved virginity,”

To me, it seems that he saying that he shouldn’t touch her because her virginity is so scared. But then again, if you have worms chewing on something it ruins it and degrades the item that being chewed on. It also could be saying that his lust will follow her to the grave and forever haunt her. And now it seems that he isn’t putting much thought into what he is saying.

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