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Easy on "To His Coy Mistress"

Life is to Short
The gift of life is a precious and wonderful experience. Often times, life is just too short and we leave the world without accomplishing many of our goals. People should strive to accomplish as much as they can in their lives. Life should not be viewed as a struggle to survive but rather a time to pursue many opportunities. In the poem “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell, the speaker is seen as trying to convince a woman to have sex with him. She tells him she is a virgin and does not want to have sex. The speaker then tells the women that there is no reason to wait because life is to short and one day the opportunity will be gone. Throughout the poem the speaker uses sex as a metaphor to describe life’s opportunities. What the speaker is saying is that life is too brief to be conservative. Life is too short to waste time so we should make the best of what we have left.
Throughout the poem, the speaker is literally trying to get a woman ...

Posted by: Andres Cisneros

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