“Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze/Two hundred to adore each breast:/But thirty thousand to the rest” (lines 13-15). The speaker’s physical attraction and desire for sex grows more. The speaker is also using flattery in hopes of persuading her to give in to his request. He tells her he will spend thirty thousand years adoring her body, because he feels that she deserves that type of affection. “Thou by the Indian Ganges’ side/I by the tide of Humber would complain” (lines 5, 7). Here he continues to confess his love by telling the Mistress they could flirt and cuddle by many large areas such as the Humber river in North …show more content…
Stated in Raychel Reiff’s article, it says, “the speaker looks at reality and marks that time passes quickly. To win her love, the speaker now must make his loved one understand that she cannot remain cold and distant, or time will pass them by” (Reiff par. 4). The speaker has become more desperate and powerful with his words by telling the Mistress they do not have endless time as it is “at my back” (line 21) pushing them forward using “time’s winged chariot” (line 28) to give time a physical image you can see and hear the moving wings as well as telling the Mistress how fast time flies. He begins to tell her that she will be old and dusty soon, so she should just give into him at that