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Charles Kay Smith Critic Thcm Andrew Marvell X3

Front Critic for THCM Andrew Marvell x3
Back •His audience at Nun Appleton would likely have perceived poem: 'as a temptation poem written to instruct as well as delight Mary Fairfax' - writer's intentions
•'love has been stripped of 
any higher emotions of tenderness and respect, becoming instead a violent urge to lacerate and consume'

Charles Kay Smith

Marvell's seducer construes coyness to be a 'crime' because it impedes his natural desire for sex.

Charles Kay Smith

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