Thursday, January 22, 2015

Carpe Diem

Carpe Diem poets are well known for their poems about sex, love, and living while young. One of the most famous is "To His Coy Mistress" by Marvell. This poem out of all the ones read in class, I feel is the most persuasive. Not to say any of them are very persuasive (ahem! The Flea, I'm looking at you!) but it is the one that starts off with the standard male way to go about getting a girl to sleep with them. Flirting, and going on about their beauty and how lovely they are and how wonderful, then going on to say it won't last so the time is now. It seems over the thousands of years, nothing has changed.

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