Tuesday, March 11, 2008
To His Coy Mistress
This poem is about a man who is trying to make a make a woman hurry up and love him. In the time it was writen, the 1600's, it would be the worst thing she could do. He is underhanded and is just telling her things she wants to hear so he can have his way with her. He tells her all these beautiful things that she would like to hear, and wonderfull things that they could do together if they only had the time. Why do they have so little time is? Is one of them going to die soon from a disease? Or is the use of the word mistress meaning that he already has a wife to spend all his time with. He goes on about how little time they have, then he turns darker and talks of death and vaults, and "worms shall try that long preserved virginity" - did he really need to go there? He seems like a slimeball to me.
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This poem shows that men can be suck whores... It's true. Trying to get the girl to be with him when he already has (or perhaps has) as wife. Kinda reminded me a lot of today's world... but nothing new is under the sun... there are just different slime balls trying to have their way with people.... blah.
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