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To His Coy Mistress Annotations

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Love and sex also coney intense human experiences in “To his coy Mistress”. Throughout the argumentative speech the speakers only desires a physical relationship with not emotional input unlike the mistress. In the first stanza the speakers decides the mistress with sweet words of devotion “Till the conversion of Jews” this hyperbolised quote is an intertextual reference to the Bible referring to the end of time. Conveying that the speaker would love his mistress till the end of time. Additionally, the speakers use a hyperbolised, alliteration “An age at least to every part” implying how much he loves her. Further in the pome the speaker true intentions of having sexual relationship are revealed with the use of the simile, “while the youthful
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