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