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What do you think accounts for these differences in tone, symbolism, and diction (poetic language)?
In proper essay format (with thesis, body, and conclusion), describe the starkly different attitudes expressed by the speakers in Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” (pp. 81-82) and Anne Finch’s “The Unequal Fetters” (p. 112) to the inescapable passage of time and its ravages. What do you think accounts for these differences in tone, symbolism, and diction (poetic language)? Quote examples from both poems to support your positions.