To His Coy Mistress
Tags
en
cegep/3
Word count
119 words
Reading time
1 minute
Carpe Diem poem that praises and tries to convince a mistress to have sex
- "vegetable love": reductionist
- "last age should show your heart"
- Worms: phallic imagery
- Fine grave: irony
- Last stanza: optimism, plural pronoun
- "youthful hue" and "willing soul": transient
- "sits" and "transpires":
- Static vs dynamic
- Remain the same vs Reveal the truth
- "thy skin" and "every pore":
- Amplification
- Yonic pore
- Smooth vs rough
- Surface vs deep
- Sport: mutual activity
- "amorous birds of prey":
- Birds have rituals of love
- Both are equally preys
- Make the sun run: gain power through sex
Ajitani Hifumi