To His Coy Mistress; Tonight I Can Write

To His Coy Mistress

            “We would sit down and think which way to walk and pass our long love’s day.” (pg. 310) I like this because the way I read it said that he isn’t with this girl yet but he wants to sit down and figure out how to walk past her or near her everyday so that he can see her. Like when we were talking about walking a different way in the halls at school so we can see our crushes. “My vegetable love should grow vaster than empires, and more slow…” (pg. 310) I just like this because his love is going to grow huge and wide and yet slow and steady over the years. It’s sweet of him to say. I liked this poem because it actually has rhyme and rhythm and he is clever with his metaphors and words.

Tonight I Can Write

            At first, I didn’t think the beginning lines were sad so I was confused as to why he was writing the saddest lines but then as he goes on to say how he held and kissed her on nights like that but now he does not have her, I realized why it was sad. As I read on, I was confused when he says, “I no longer love her, that’s certain, but how I loved her.” (pg. 321) But then I realized that it’s one of those things where he was probably trying to lie to himself and say he doesn’t love her when he really still does. The overall reaction to this was a couple who is that couple, the ones who always are breaking up and getting back together. When he says that he sometimes loved her or she sometimes loved him, I feel like they caused each other a lot of problems but they did love each other and now they are over for good and he misses her, just like she probably misses him.