A place to write responses to, and to build interpretations of, literature for College Writing II at Minnesota State Community and Technical College.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
"To His Coy Mistress"
In Andrew Marvell’s poem “To His Coy Mistress,” I was kind of confused. I re-read the poem a couple times, but it seemed when I thought I understood the poem, I would re-read to check and get confused all over again. Maybe I have been trying too hard to understand the poem. The lines, “To walk, and pass our long love’s day./ Thou by the Indian Ganges’ side.” (Lines 4-5) was kind of confusing to me. I didn’t really understand it that well. I am also confused at the end of the poem. “Thus, though we cannot make our sun/ Stand still, yet we will make him run.” (45-46) “Thy beauty shall no more be found,/ Nor in thy marble vault shall sound” (25-26) seems to me that someone dies because when I read the “marble vault” I thought of a casket, which is sometimes can be made of marble and acts like a vault. But then when I re-read the poem and got to that part I think I misinterpreted the meaning.
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