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The speaker in Andrew Marvell’s “” is a man who is addressing a silent listener, who happens to be his mistress. In this dramatic monologue the speaker tries to explain his feelings to his mistress. The speaker uses many allusions to empires an ....

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.... his explanation by saying “I would love you ten years before the flood” which to me means that he would love her from the beginning of time. He then continues by saying, “and you should if you please refuse, till the conversion of the Jews”. If the reader has any knowledge of the strength of the belief of Jewish people in their faith, then the reader would get the idea that the speaker meant to say that he will lover till the end of time, even if she was to refuse his love. Next, the speaker compares his growing love for her to the expansion of great empires. In lines 11 and 12 the speaker says, “and my vegetables lov ....