Posterous theme by Cory Watilo

Blk C: Eng 11 Due Wednesday. Blk E: Due Thursday

Read "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell. (Search online: poetryfoundation.org – there is a link to this on bottom corner of my website.  Then just search that site for the poem)

ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:

1.  Find the following poetic devices: allusion (2), hyperbole (4), simile (3), alliteration (2), personification (2), metaphor (2).... for a total of 15 marks.

2.  Locate 2 shifts in the poem

3.  Who is the speaker? (give a few details what type of person you think he is)

4.  To whom is he speaking? What is he trying to convince her to do?

5.  What is he saying about time?

 

Read "To the Virgins to Make Much of Time" by Robert Herrick (check the "poetry foundation" website)