“To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell

... Name: Mehmet Tuncer Stimulus: "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell First Draft: 27/09/2001 Final Draft: 26/03/2002 Type: Poetry Analysis Andrew Marvell in his poem, "To His Coy Mistress" stresses the temporality of youth. With cleverly tooled literary devices, Marvell creates a powerful and playful love poem in "To His Coy Mistress." He unites elements of form, rhetoric, and imagery into a subtle argument with which the speaker in the poem also attempts to seduce a reluctant lady. To assist the argument, Marvell breaks the poem into three parts. He presents one set of ideas, then argues against them, and then presents a second set of ideas. In the opening part of the poem stress how he wishes his love to be, and in this case it is tranquil and drawn out. Instead of beginning the poem with the concept of death, he opens it with the lines, "Had we but world enough, and time

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