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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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The passage continues with repeated qualifications and repeated negations which serve to imply that the Narrator cannot — or decides not to — explicitly state what entices Erwin. In addition, the passage includes a simile comparing what entice Erwin to a “shimmer”, further implying that narrators incapability to directly share what object entices Erwin.

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This is a letter that was sent by Abigail Adams to her husband, John Adams, one of the most influential leaders of the American Revolution, at Braintree in Massachusetts on 31 March 1776, to take women’s rights into consideration when drafting new laws. This letter is part of the collection of missives more than 1,100 that John and Abigail exchanged during his nearly fifty years of married life and have a great historic important role. In them, the dreams of youth's ambitious lawyer, complaints of abandonment of his wife Abigail during the years when her husband was sent to Europe to strengthen the independence of the thirteen American colonies and political issues are recounted.

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In addition, this stanza does not end as a sentence which shows that the thought is not complete here. Moreover, each stanza after stanza seven does not end up as one sentence; some may have fragments or even multiple sentences. This illustrates that the speaker’s mind is running wild by desiring to recapture his sexual memories as well as his other memories with his significant other. By stanza ten, the speaker is completely torn between recalling memories with that person and recalling sexual ones. For example, Lee writes “useless, useless…/

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With such beauty and grace the lady confesses her love and desire for him instantly becoming love struck "that burned and set fire to his heart" (line 119). "If it pleased you, if you such joy might be mine that you would love me, there is nothing you might command, within my power, that I would not do, whether foolish or wise. I shall obey your command; for you, I shall abandon everyone. I want never to leave you. That is what I most desire" (lines 121-130).

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He is insinuating that they should guide the Patient to the wrong of his two desires in women. For instance, Screwtape states, “There is one type for which his desire is such as to be naturally amenable to the Enemy–readily mixed with charity, . . . obedient to marriage, coloured all through with that golden light of reverence and naturalness . . . there is another type which he desires brutally . . . a type best used to draw him away from marriage altogether(108).”

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In the poem Romance by Edgar Allen Poe, the speaker navigates through the hardships of adulthood. The meaning of romance changes as life runs its course. Much like Poe's other poems, Romance elicits a tone of nostalgic thinking. The speaker in the poem describes romance in the context of aging and the tribulations that occur as a result of reaching adulthood and life experience. At the start of the poem, romance is personified as something that "loves to nod and sing" (299).

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Women through history struggled to fit in a life were men have the most important roles and the whole world in their hands. The battle for a woman to be seen as a person in her own privilege, characterized her own terms, by her own judgment and achievements, wishing the same open doors as men have and practice. There is no role for women in the society back then even in marriage, she can’t choose whom to marry, and basically women role is forgotten in the society at the Restoration era. So in this research paper I will discuss one of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s poem Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to Her Husband. In which a woman blamed for infidelity lashes out against her glaringly double-crossing spouse, against the patriarchal lawful framework that permits

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The young man describes Mrs. Moreen as a woman that “spoke only of feelings and, as it were, of the aristocracy.” This indicates that he believes that Mrs. Moreen believes that she is superior to him as she focuses on aristocracy and the hierarchy of the society. He is very conscious of this perception and this contributes to his issues of being insecure and nervous about approaching the subject of his salary. In addition, the third person limited point of view shows the young man’s paranoia surrounding the teaching of the student as he is worried that the student will “prove cleverer than himself.” This adds to the degrading and ironic tone as it shows that not only is the narrating mocking him, but there is reason for it as he himself is doubtful of himself.

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The narrator continues with the metaphors, explaining that their partner “fell in love” with being with them, and how the narrator does not particularly like

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To begin, the author uses characterization in her short story in order to show just how difficult it can be to start a meaningful relationship when both partners are still quite unfamiliar with one and other. Firstly, when Robert and Margot were about to engage in coitus, Robert says; “I always wanted to fuck a girl with nice tits”. The fact that the author chooses to use the words “nice tits” shows that the only thing that interests Robert in this relationship would be Margot’s body. It reveals just how meaningless the relationship between these two, which can almost be called strangers, truly was. We could make the statement that for Robert at least, this relationship is solely about pleasure.

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Also, want Nymph to feel appreciated. He is promising her a lot thing to make her happy and appreciate. He wants her to live like a royal. He loves her so much he is willing to do anything. " a belt of straw and ivy buds, with coral clasps and amber studs, and if these pleasures may thee move, come live with me, and be my love" 16-20.

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He simply says that passionate love should be allowed to mature before a couple decides to marry. By this, he means to let companionate love grow alongside the passionate love. Companionate love involves being much more intimate with one’s partner than does just sex. It is after all that initial passion fades that the relationship is truly tested. When passion fades, if companionate love does not take its place, then the relationship is destined to fail.

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Rose imagines her French teacher touching her in a sexual way. “She has a considerable longing to be somebody’s object” (Munro 153). It is no wonder why she imagines the old man’s hand on her. Her imagination of being touched has happened more than once. She is so eager to have a man in her life she imagines to have pleasure with any man including the old man.

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The literary device synecdoche is used when a part of something represent a whole or vice versa. He uses these parts, to her whole (her body) along with an extensive amount of time that foreshadows its decay. In line eleven the author states "My vegetable love should grow". It is meant to be meaningful to the mistress because in that time frame vegetables grew naturally. He was trying to emphasize on the fact that his love for her will grow with time.

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