ENGL 204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: To His Coy Mistress, Andrew Marvell, Petrarchan Sonnet
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The coronet: refers to jesus" cruci xion, religious poem of praise, doesn"t want to fall into self glori cation, lays these words at christ"s feet, asks christ to remove the serpent from his verses. To his coy mistress: rst paragraph. The female mistress has no voice: opens in a petrarchan love poem. Labels different parts of her body and how long she would praise it: moves into a threatening language, tells her that if she doesn"t sleep with him she"ll just die a virgin. The worms will take her virginity: asks her to attack time with him. Monday, february 27, 2017: taking this to a logical absurdity. The soul and the body: different spin on the argument, the soul can feel. More likely to sin: the soul feels like it is being held down by the body. Wants the body to die: the body accuses the soul of being the architect of sin.
