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    <title>To His Coy Mistress Group at eNotes</title>
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        <title><![CDATA[To begin with, as you probably know, the New Critic would focus almost...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[To begin with, as you probably know, the New Critic would focus almost exclusively on this individual poem. New Criticism doesn't focus on the biography of the poet but does allow for discussions of allusions to earlier literary works and even to the place of this poem within a larger poetic tradition (such as the pastoral or love lyric). To avoid speaking about the poet, the New Critic would talk about the speaker (or "persona") in the poem....]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[How does the new critics deal with Marvell's poem "to his coy mistress"?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How does the new critics deal with Marvell's poem "to his coy mistress"?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[In what way does Andrew Marvell in his poetry -To his Coy Mistress-...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In what way does Andrew Marvell in his poetry -To his Coy Mistress- represent a degeneration of metaphysical style compare to Donne ?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Carpe diem means to "seize the day."  The speaker in "To His Coy...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Carpe diem means to "seize the day."  The speaker in "To His Coy Mistress" is trying to persuade his lover to stop postponing sexual intimacy in their relationship because

The grave's a fine and private place,But none, I think, do there embrace.

He is using the ruse that since death comes so quickly, he and she should "seize" the opportunity they have now--immediately.  He says if their time together was limitless, he would spend years...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:49:26 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What evidence indicates that Andrew Marvell's poem "To His Coy Mistress"...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What evidence indicates that Andrew Marvell's poem "To His Coy Mistress" is a carpe diem poem?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:36:55 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I am so glad to learn that this wonderful poem is still being taught!...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I am so glad to learn that this wonderful poem is still being taught!
The speaker in the poem is an older man trying to seduce a younger woman. This sounds a bit creepy today, but in Marvell's time, "older" would likely have been 30ish, and younger perhaps 15-16. Romance and even marriage between people of such ages was not at all uncommon.
But time does not change human development. A 30-year-old has a great deal more maturity and life...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:21:51 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Who is the speaker in "To His Coy Mistress"? How is he characterized?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Who is the speaker in "To His Coy Mistress"? How is he characterized?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 06:12:31 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I think the poem you're asking about is probably 'To His Coy Mistress.'...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I think the poem you're asking about is probably 'To His Coy Mistress.' It may be discussed as a metaphysical poem because it employs a great deal of spiritual imagery. The first few stanzas read:

Had we but world enough, and time,This coyness, lady, were no crime.We would sit down and think which wayTo walk, and pass our long love's day;Thou by the Indian Ganges' sideShouldst rubies find; I by the tideOf Humber would complain. I wouldLove...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:23:55 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Metaphysical poetry is poetry that contains references to what reality,...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Metaphysical poetry is poetry that contains references to what reality, or the idea of being, really is.  It is philosophical (and often religious) poetry which contemplates what human beings and the universe are.  While Marvell certainly put metaphysical ideas in this poem, this is not the main thrust of it.  This is a "carpe diem" poem  (Latin for "seize the day"), along the lines of Robert Herrick's earlier poem "To Virgins, to Make...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:11:50 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Discuss Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" as an example of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Discuss Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" as an example of metaphysical poetry.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:55:04 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Discuss Andrew Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress' as an example of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Discuss Andrew Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress' as an example of metaphysical poetry.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:48:21 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[You could try the Oxford University Press' Handbook of Critical...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/his-coy-mistress/q-and-a/want-critical-essay-based-deconstruction-approach-82971</link>
        <description><![CDATA[You could try the Oxford University Press' Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature 5th edition. It applies different critical perspectives, including deconstruction, to six classic texts, including 'To his Coy Mistress'.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:32:28 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I want a critical essay based on the deconstruction approach about the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I want a critical essay based on the deconstruction approach about the poem "To His Coy Mistress"???]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 9 May 2009 22:59:36 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[A poem that springs immediately to mind, of roughly the same period, is...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A poem that springs immediately to mind, of roughly the same period, is "To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time" by Robert Herrick.  The message of both poems is the same -- there is not very much time in this world, and we are only young for a short period of that time; and for this reason, the poets are saying, the mistress should yield to the advances of the lover.  While the poems are not exactly contemporary (Herrick's was published in...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 20:33:50 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA["To His Coy Mistress" can be compared to what other poem of the same...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA["To His Coy Mistress" can be compared to what other poem of the same period in regard to the nature of love and relationships?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:49:30 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This poem is a witty example of carpe diem style--seize the day for...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This poem is a witty example of carpe diem style--seize the day for tomorrow will be a different story!
The poem begins with the speaker praising the lady's beauty,and he tells her how much time he would spend ravishing her every inch, giving the most time to her heart since it is the most beautiful part of her.  If time were unlimited, he would spend every bit of it wooing her.
The tone changes, however when he says, "BUT at my back I always...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:22:56 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the poem " To his Coy Mistress" where does the tone change?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the poem " To his Coy Mistress" where does the tone change?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:06:59 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Both poems reflect the ancient Roman idea of &quot;Carpe Diem&quot; or...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Both poems reflect the ancient Roman idea of &quot;Carpe Diem&quot; or &quot;sieze the day&quot;. They both encourage women to live life to the fullest each day since life does not last forever. Herrick addresses all &quot;virgins&quot; or young women. Since Herrick was a priest, he encourages women to marry before it's too late. Marvell was a bachelor and most people assume that he is addressing only one woman. There is no mention of marriage...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 5 Nov 2008 09:55:27 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is a comparision and contrast between the poems &quot;To His Coy...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is a comparision and contrast between the poems &quot;To His Coy Mistress&quot; by Andrew Marvell and &quot;To Virgins, to Make Much of Time&quot;?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 5 Nov 2008 08:10:15 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Andrew Marvell's &quot;To His Coy Mistress&quot; is a metaphysical poem....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Andrew Marvell's &quot;To His Coy Mistress&quot; is a metaphysical poem. Systematic reasoning is one of the chief characteristics of metaphysical poetry. Stated simply, the argument of the poem is that man is mortal {&quot;The grave's a fine and private place/But none, I think, there do embrace&quot;} and hence it is advisable not to waste time {&quot;But at my back I always hear/Time's winged chariot drawing near&quot;} in long drawn out...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 9 Sep 2008 07:48:58 PST</pubDate>
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