Thursday, October 7, 2010
"Had We But World Enough"
The first line of the poem is by far the most important. It sets the stage for the three arguments to follow. The use of the past perfect 'Had" serves to create a conditional that cannot be achieved, for they do not have this supposed time and therefore must love. However, he implies that if they indeed had this time he would in fact love her endlessly. He claims that if he had all the world he would be able to fittingly love her. The second part of this line is, "this coyness lady would be no crime". Moreover since they do not have this time the coyness is a crime. This subtle chracterization serves to, as I said earlier, set the stage for the rest of the argument.
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I like what you had to say Adam the author right off the bat states that time can't be stop and it is unachievable to do that. I like how you said since they have no tine they must love. The author is pretty much reasoning with the coy mistress in his argument to get her to sleep with him. Overall I'm very proud of your good effort Adam. Good stuff man.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your claim that Marvel's usage of "had" creates a conditional that cannot be achieved. In addition, I like how you use the second part of this line to support your claim (that they do not have time.)
ReplyDeleteI am definitely on the same page with your ideas. I talked about the same line in my paragraph. I never realized "had" could be seen like that but you completely convinced me of it. I thought it had something to do with the way he is always in action to get the love of the mistress; this is why i thought he started with a verb, an action word. I also agree with Ryan in that I really like how you used another quote from poem to explain your main arguments.
ReplyDeleteGood analysis!
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