Refer to assignment sheet for homework.
Paper due on Friday and rough draft due Friday as well.
On moodle, go to English, Under "Poetry Rocks" go to companion site. Look at the Lit Quiz questions, many of them are on the exam and on tests.
To His Coy Mistress:
How it is a man speaking to a woman he wants telling her how she needs to seize the day because she is getting older, and he wants her to take control now and give into his conquests. Talking about how she only has a certain amount of time before she no longer has her beauty so she should take the time now to be with him before it is too late.
- Examples:
"Times winged chariot hurrying near"
"Now let us sport us while we may, and now, like amorous birds of prey"
TIME with Passionate Shepherd, Coy Mistress, To the virgins IS CONSTANT THEME
****Carpe Diem
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
Male addressing female
Continuous theme of carpe diem
Imagery in first four lines:
Comparing young women to flowers (metaphor)
The flower blooms, then dies -- time of blossoming for women, then it goes away
It is a gift to be young, true gift to give your virginity to another person
Because you can only give it to one other person
Time is flying (personification)
Double meaning with title, To the Virgins --both virgins and young women
What is the privilege to being young?
Enjoy time as it is now because time is flying so enjoy youth
Next four lines
"Glorious lamp of heaven" = the sun
Appreciate the day because the sun is constantly rising and we are constantly getting older
Gift of being young, don't always realize what a gift it is
Next four lines
Time always succeeds youth, indulge in it while you can
Seize the day
Next four lines
Don't be too shy, use your time
Once you use your prime of youth, you may just waste the rest of your life as well
Explication: The speaker is encouraging young women to seize the day, take advantage of youth, and to see it as a gift. He does that through the use of metaphors, examples--sun, running--also the rhyming: more of a draw, enticing, upbeat. Personification of time as thief and as flying.
Tomorrow: Bring with you any kind of thin paper, magazine, MAKING OF PINS ON THURSDAY. Work on papers.
