This may be because she values her virtue she has set for her life. This poem is focused more on the narrator’s desires and thoughts. Ones goal of love or lust to be attained could always differ from another’s. One can infer that the narrator’s idea of carpe diem is about seducing an attractive coy woman for a one-night stand. Where as the coy mistress does not want to give in to the narrators wooing most likely due to her upbringing about love being developed in a solidified relationship, rather than a lustful, potential, one-night fling. If she does give in to this type of love that she does not know of, it may go against her idea of carpe
This may be because she values her virtue she has set for her life. This poem is focused more on the narrator’s desires and thoughts. Ones goal of love or lust to be attained could always differ from another’s. One can infer that the narrator’s idea of carpe diem is about seducing an attractive coy woman for a one-night stand. Where as the coy mistress does not want to give in to the narrators wooing most likely due to her upbringing about love being developed in a solidified relationship, rather than a lustful, potential, one-night fling. If she does give in to this type of love that she does not know of, it may go against her idea of carpe