In writing poetry, poets use a number of archetypical images and symbols to develop an attitude that they desire the speaker to portray. ... By creating this alluring atmosphere, he makes his life with his lady a day in luxury, trying to entice her to given in to his thought charming ways. ... Then Marvell writes, "And tear our pleasures with rough strife thorough the iron gates of life." ... The use of the symbols in poetry greatly impacts the poem or other literary works also, by giving the composition several degrees of perception. This ability to make the reader interpret a piece indirectl...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Most of the time the girls" parents would arrange her marriage to better her life, but not always ended to their wishes. ... The poetry of the 1600s reflected the traditional courtship of "wooing." In "To His Coy Mistress" Andrew Marvell used a type of poetry called "carpe diem" meaning seize the day. ...

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• Grade Level: High School