Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress"
The consensus was that the poem's speaker is attempting to persuade "His Coy Mistress" to have sex with him. The speaker seems frustrated, impatient, and to feel a sense of urgency in pursuing this goal.
Some students argued that the speaker's words are mostly empty rhetoric--that he doesn't necessarily believe in the truth of what he is saying, but that he using various verbal strategies (different in each of the poem's three sections) to attempt to win her over. This view held particularly with respect to the first section, the ideas of which some saw as being so exagg ....
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