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Do you think that the speaker uses persuasive language/techniques effectively in 'To His Coy Mistress'? If so: explore a couple of particularly good aspects.
If not: explore aspects which you think are NOT persuasive.
Challenge: use a counter argument from the other point of view (i.e. if you're arguing that it IS effective, look at how it might not be, and then argue against that). Extension: Marvell is a metaphysical poet. How does he explore metaphysical issues in 'To His Coy Mistress'?
Marvell uses lots of persuasive writing in ‘To His Coy Mistress’ effectively. An aspect from the poem is that Marvell talks a lot about time and how they must go through with this physical relationship before their time runs out; they must experience as much pleasure that they can get out of their relationship. Marvell purposely has the man tell his mistress all the things he’d love to do if they had all the time in the world, to make sure to show his mistress that he truly loves her and shows that he really does think about her a lot. The man would take a ‘hundred years… to praise (her) eyes’ and ‘thirty thousand years to the rest’ of her body. Flattery is used at this point to try romanticising his mistress and slowly seducing her.
The antithesis, I believe, in the poem is also a very good persuasive technique as it almost worries the mistress about what the future holds for her and not experiencing things such as pleasure before she dies. She’ll never be able to stay young forever and will miss out on the great things life has to offer. Their relationship will be over in a flash and they will regret not carrying out their sexual desires. Marvell always brings the theme of time into each stanza and how death will be the end of their time and all they can do is lay there, and their ‘virginity’ will be forever ‘preserved’; as soon as they die, their love will die with them.
In the final stanza (the synthesis part of the poem), the man goes back to talking about
If not: explore aspects which you think are NOT persuasive.
Challenge: use a counter argument from the other point of view (i.e. if you're arguing that it IS effective, look at how it might not be, and then argue against that). Extension: Marvell is a metaphysical poet. How does he explore metaphysical issues in 'To His Coy Mistress'?
Marvell uses lots of persuasive writing in ‘To His Coy Mistress’ effectively. An aspect from the poem is that Marvell talks a lot about time and how they must go through with this physical relationship before their time runs out; they must experience as much pleasure that they can get out of their relationship. Marvell purposely has the man tell his mistress all the things he’d love to do if they had all the time in the world, to make sure to show his mistress that he truly loves her and shows that he really does think about her a lot. The man would take a ‘hundred years… to praise (her) eyes’ and ‘thirty thousand years to the rest’ of her body. Flattery is used at this point to try romanticising his mistress and slowly seducing her.
The antithesis, I believe, in the poem is also a very good persuasive technique as it almost worries the mistress about what the future holds for her and not experiencing things such as pleasure before she dies. She’ll never be able to stay young forever and will miss out on the great things life has to offer. Their relationship will be over in a flash and they will regret not carrying out their sexual desires. Marvell always brings the theme of time into each stanza and how death will be the end of their time and all they can do is lay there, and their ‘virginity’ will be forever ‘preserved’; as soon as they die, their love will die with them.
In the final stanza (the synthesis part of the poem), the man goes back to talking about