Wednesday, October 6, 2010
To His Coy Mistress
The line "Now, therefore, while the youthful hue" is important in its context because it starts the reason for his poem. Each of the three stanzas has its own focus and issue and the last is his logical conclusion. In order to to fully understand its important we must look at the first parts. The first stanza talks about all the things they could do together and all the time he could take to admire her beauty if they had all the time in the world. His second stanza goes on to say that although this would be idea, they don't have time. And soon they will grow old and lose out on the opportunity. "Now, therefore, while the youthful hue", he goes on to say that they need to seize the day and take advantage of the time they have. He goes on to say they need to act like "birds of prey". This therefore statement leads to his purpose for the letter to his mistress and is the turning point that is supposed to catch her and make her see she should do.
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Though Nick's line is different from that of my own, I do believe that the line he has chosen is quite significant when one determines the argument marvell is making. This line may be specific to the second part of marvell's argument but it is arguable that this whole poem can be governed by this line.
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ReplyDeleteI agree with Nick that Marvell is saying seize the day and the characters needs to take advantage of the time they have and not let their time go to waste. I completely agree that time is very limited and in order to appreciate her beauty he needs to seize that time and not let a second go by without taking advantage of it.
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