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DIacumin - To his coy Mistress - last two paragraphs
by DIacumin - (2011-02-25)
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The last 20 lines are about time and the circle of life. According to that the first two lines of the paragraph says that the time is hurrying near and is running out. In the next line Andrew Marvell uses the figure of the oxymoron with “vast eternity” because eternity is such eternal and not only vast and he says that after having adore his body for ages there will be nothing to do because she will never despise his love. Reading on the narrator says that his singing voice after her death can’t be heard from the marble vault and also all things that he has loved of her will be destroyed. This is like a “memento mori” that reminds to the woman that they aren’t eternal and his virginity will turn to dust. There comes out the reflection about the lack of time and its uselessness. In the last paragraph Andrew Marvell starts to attack her and says to let them sport them while they can, because after death they can’t do nothing. There comes out also the figure of the amorous bird: an energetic and drawing image. Then the author says that they need to use the time that rest and not to die without having done something together. Reading on the author uses the ball as a metaphor of the circle of life where people live and die. In all this last paragraphs there is the repetition of the sound “ou” and “ai”, that reminds suffering and a turmoil. There is a vast use of run-on lines to make the rhythm of the poem fluent.