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    This document provides a summary of the poem "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell. It discusses the three stanzas of the poem: in the first, the speaker tries to persuade the mistress to spend a long time admiring each part of her body; in the second, he notes that time is passing quickly; and in the third, he urges them to make love while they are still young, rather than wait for their beauty and passions to fade with time. The summary concludes by noting that in the final lines, the speaker's tone becomes more gentle as he says they cannot control time itself but should not let it control them.

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    This document provides a summary of the poem "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell. It discusses the three stanzas of the poem: in the first, the speaker tries to persuade the mistress to spend a long time admiring each part of her body; in the second, he notes that time is passing quickly; and in the third, he urges them to make love while they are still young, rather than wait for their beauty and passions to fade with time. The summary concludes by noting that in the final lines, the speaker's tone becomes more gentle as he says they cannot control time itself but should not let it control them.

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    This document provides a summary of the poem "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell. It discusses the three stanzas of the poem: in the first, the speaker tries to persuade the mistress to spend a long time admiring each part of her body; in the second, he notes that time is passing quickly; and in the third, he urges them to make love while they are still young, rather than wait for their beauty and passions to fade with time. The summary concludes by noting that in the final lines, the speaker's tone becomes more gentle as he says they cannot control time itself but should not let it control them.

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    To His Coy Mistress Analysis

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    This document provides a summary of the poem "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell. It discusses the three stanzas of the poem: in the first, the speaker tries to persuade the mistress to spend a long time admiring each part of her body; in the second, he notes that time is passing quickly; and in the third, he urges them to make love while they are still young, rather than wait for their beauty and passions to fade with time. The summary concludes by noting that in the final lines, the speaker's tone becomes more gentle as he says they cannot control time itself but should not let it control them.

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    Nguyen 1

    Khoa Nguyen
    Engl 100
    Mrs. Carr
    15 April, 2013
    To His Coy Mistress A Paraphrasing Challenge
    Andrew Marvell is an English poet who lived in the early seventeenth century. He is also
    considered as one of the greatest poets of the 17th century. One of his notable works is a poem called To
    His Coy Mistress, in which a speaker addresses a lady who is, apparently, pretending to reject this mans
    sexual advances.
    In the first stanza, that man says that if only they had enough world and time, the fact that the
    lady is pretending to be shy would be no problem. They could spend hours and hours to sit down and
    think about where to stroll along; and together, they would pass their lengthy days of love. She would find
    rubies by the Indian Ganges side, while he would bemoan by the river side of Humber. He would love
    her ten years before the Flood (i.e., in Noahs story); and please he asks, she should reject him till the
    conversion of the Jews. His love would grow slowly like vegetables, yet be greater than empires.
    Anyway, he says, he would spend a hundred years to admire her eyes and gaze on her forehead, two
    hundred years to praise each breast, and 30 thousand years to adore the remainder. He would spend at
    least a year to worship every other part of her body; and on his last age, she should show him her heart.
    He confirms that she indeed deserves that dignity; and he cannot love her less than the best he actually
    can.
    In the second stanza, he states that he always hears, however, the time flying fast behind his back.
    He also sees the enormous and endless sand of immortality. He thinks her beauty is one of a kind and
    cannot be found. In the next lines, his words seem to be more strong and violent. He warns her that in her
    grave, the echoes of his song cannot be heard. And then the worms might attempt to try her virginity that
    she has long been retaining. He says her pride will deteriorate into dust, and his sexual desires will also
    disappear. However private and beautiful her grave is, no one would like to embrace in it.

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    In the last stanza, he persuades her that as long as the colors of youth are still dominate on her
    skin, the same as morning dew, as long as she still knows that all of her pores are passionate; let them
    make love while they can, like mating birds of prey. He would rather devour the time together than be
    eaten by the power of time. Next, he describes the action of sex likerolling all their stamina and sweetness
    into one, feeling the pleasure with their violent fight. All of this energy could even run through the gate of
    life.
    In the last two lines, his words are more calm and gentle. The man ends his seductive words by
    telling her that although they cannot create their own sun, which can be a metaphor of time, they can still
    make it move. If they cannot control time, they cannot let it control them either.

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