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To his coy Mistress.  

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To his coy Mistress To his coy mistress is a persuasive poem concerned with the art of seduction. The poem is split into three distinctive sections, each with its own method of showing affection and portraying Marvell's annoyance towards a lack of sexual stimulation. Marvell has written cleverly in order to place the reader in his mistresses' position; this makes the reader more emotionally involved and is used as a persuasive technique to show that his words are personal to each individual. "I would love you ten years..."The use of the personal pronouns 'I' and 'you' implicates to the reader (who has taken the position as his mistress) that they are unique. The title of the poem suggests that the poem concerns the subject of an illicit affair, this can be assumed from examining the word 'mistress' which holds derogative connotation, but due to the previous word 'coy', all...

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