Carpe Diem "Seize the Day"
To His Coy Mistress
Who? - Women (not a mistress as we know it); Man is talking.
What? - Saying seize the day; Come sleep with me
Where? - England
Why? - Time is fleeting.
When - NOW.
From this, you can write two sentences to summarize the poem.
Stanza 1:
Tone: Loving. "Vegetable Love" Calming. "Had we enough time..."
Flirtatious and Convincing; Ganges - Impress(Knowledge).
Religion - Jews.
Is he sincere?
Stanza 2:
But... (sleeping with me) your beauty doesn't last forever.
Tone: Forceful, Melancholy, Doom.
He seems Impatient
Lewd - Disgusting
Stanza 3:
More Urgent, Combo of Stanzas 1 & 2.
Lines 1 & 2 are sincere.
Amorous Bird of Pray; Fires; Devour - Scary...
Diction makes rhythm of this stanza faster; Vocab & Syntax
*Tone = Mood
Depends on a lot of other things.
*Alliteration = Initial sounds of the word beginning with vowel or consonant that are repeated in close succession. * Don't have to be right next to each other.
-Stanza 1: More Charming, Wooing.
Line 4: long love's day
Line 3: which way
Line 2: Coyness, lady, were no crime
Line 20: Love at lower
-Stanza 2: Less Charming.
Line 21: But at my back
Line 31: Private place
Line 26-27: Shall sound my echoing song
With this, you can write an Opening Paragraph!
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