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| What is the speaker trying to get from the person he is addressing? |
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What does he spend the first part of the poem discussing? What specific examples does he use to back up his assertion? |
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| If they had all the time in the world, he would spend it talking with her. He says that they would sit down and think of a way to walk and pass the time together. |
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| Where does the poem have a bit of a turn? |
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| At the second part of the poem. |
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| What methods does he use to convince the lady to give in to him during the second half of the poem? How would you classify these methods? |
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That they will all turn dust, and she would not have lost her virginity. Sneaky. |
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| How is this poem different from Herrick’s To the Virgins To Make Much Of Time? |
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| In Herrick's poem, he promisses marriage, and Marvell does not. |
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