Friday, May 18, 2012

To His Coy Mistress


            “My vegetable love should grow vaster than empires and more slow.” This is a quote from “To His Coy Mistress,” by Andrew Marvell. It is a love poem but it is very unique when compared to other love poems. Instead of declaring his love passionately and exaggerative he writes as if they have an eternity and life goes on forever. They can wait forever to fall in love. This quote talks about his love being gradual but that the strength their love will have because it was not rushed. Rather than a normal love poem this one does not feature the common cultural ideal of “love at first sight.”

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