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Seduction in To His Mistress Going to Bed, tidy Morrow, Corinnas Going A-Maying, and To His Coy Mistress Throughout time, one of the greatest challenges macrocosm has faced is the sexual conquest of womankind. In many cultures today, this challenge has evolved into an entangled courting process that often involves buying the woman flowers, gifts, and meals to persuade her to form sex. Another device that a man might give to constitute a woman is poetry. In the English language, the use of poetry to earn women may be traced back to the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Cavalier poets such as Robert Herrick, John Donne, and Andrew Marvell embrace this method of conquering, conservatively constructing verse with the intent to satisfy their carnal desires. Each of these men deposit upon several literary tools to manipulate women to fornicate with them. Among the more prominent techniques is the use of logical rhetoric to reason that engagement in sex is the ruff choice of action. Another device that appears frequently in early seduction poetry is the imperative statement, which simultaneously prompts the woman to take action and endows her with a sense of control over the situation. Functioning in a mistakable manner, interrogative statements suggest the obvious truth of what the poet speaks while forcing the woman to dispense his request. By using a first person plural communicatory voice to address the woman whom he hopes to woo, the poet makes her associate herself with him in thought, thereby allowing for an easier transition for personal involvement. Finally, ... ...ional statements, thereby confirming the persuasive nature of these elements upon women. whole works Cited Donne, John. Eligy 19 To His Mistress Going to Bed. The Longman Anthology of British Literature. Ed. David Dam rosch. impudently York Addison Wesley Longman, Inc., 1999. 1563-1564. Donne, John. The Good Morrow. The Longman Anthology of British Literature. Ed. David Damrosch. New York Addison Wesley Longman, Inc., 1999. 1550-1551. Herrick, Robert. Corinnas Going A-Maying. The Longman Anthology of British Literature. Ed. David Damrosch. New York Addison Wesley Longman, Inc., 1999. 1579-1581. Marvell, Andrew. To His Coy Mistress. The Longman Anthology of British Literature. Ed. David Damrosch. New York Addison Wesley Longman, Inc., 1999. 1628-1629.