To What Does The Speaker Compare The Lady's Beauty

The speaker in Andrew Marvells To His Coy Mistress makes three arguments to convince his lady to cavort with him.

To what does the speaker compare the lady's beauty. The hair is the next element that comes to our speakers mind. This sonnet compares the speakers. For example it was not uncommon to read love poems that compared a woman to a river or the sun.

Compared to white snow her breasts are dun-colored and her hairs are like black wires on her head. The speaker describes different aspects of the woman like her hair and skin. A 14-line lyric poem usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter.

He compares her beauty to night rather than day. The lyrical I has an obsessive 1 sexual love affair with her. The speaker remembers the pain of parting with the lover.

The ability to see hear or become aware of something through the senses. As a perfect being he is even powerful than the summers day to which he has been compared up to this point. The speaker uses metaphor like eye of heaven in comparison with his beloved beauty to show that his beloveds beauty is not an ordinary thing.

A man would generally compare his lovers hair to something soft and smooth shiny and silky and it would ideally be golden in colour. Shakespeares Sonnets have more than one motif. She is the image of peaceful beauty.

In the line thy eternal summer shall not fade the man suddenly embodies summer. Sonnets 127-152 focus on the speakers relationship with a woman the so-called dark lady who is the counterpart of the innocent beautiful maid in Patriarchal sonnets. Dont eat that chocolate Amanda.