Poetry Reading Journal: "To His Coy Mistress"

INSTRUCTIONS

In your Poetry Reading Journal document, answer the following questions, giving examples/quotations from the poem to support or explain your answers.  Remember that when you quote from a poem, you give the line numbers in parenthesis.  If quoting two or more lines, use a slash to indicate a line break.  Example:  "And you laugh back nor can you ever see/The thousand little deaths my heart has died"(7-8).

Create a heading with the title of the poem.  Then answer the questions below.

 

QUESTIONS

  1. What is the situation in this poem?
  2. How does the stanza develop the speaker's argument?  Is it persuasive?
  3. What do you imagine is the woman's response to this argument?
  4. Discuss some of the similarities and differences between this poem and "The Flea."