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Persuasion can be a powerful tool. One poem that reveals one of the most popular examples of poetic persuasion is "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell. While many agree that this poem is a love poem, it is also an instrument the poet uses to his own advantage. The narrator is in love, but he also wants something in return. In short, his poem is an expression of love along with a healthy dose of desire. This paper shows that, in this poem, we see how the poet skillfully explains to his lover that, while her resistance to him is virtuous, they do have all the time in the world to be together. Through tone, structure, the use of metaphors, imagery, and rhetoric, the narrator creates a poem full of texture and experience.

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"Another interesting aspect of the poem is its structure. The poet uses pronouns in an interesting way. In the first section of the poem, the poet uses formal first and sceond-person pronouns when he describes how things might be if the two lovers had all the time in the world. The next section of the poem, the poet refers to his lover in second person as if to emphasize that fact that they do not have all the time in the world. By speaking to her this way, he is establishing a more distant and cold exchange with her. In the last section of the poem, the poet does not pronouns as he does in the first and second sections of the poem. In this way, he is establishing the fact that time waits for no one."

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