Choose three poems you find outstanding in their capacity to uplift and inspire through evoking positive emotional responses. By using a minimum of two hundred words for each describe how they achieve this effect.
Introduction - Choice.
I am unable to continue this assignment without remarking on the difficult task of choosing three poems for it. I thought about it all morning and decided to list all the poems I could think of in the afternoon. There were a lot but I worried that some were missing. However, the parameters were set. I then removed from the list those poems to which I was completely unable to ascribe the adjective uplifting', although many of them were certainly inspirational'. I also removed childhood favourites' for no other reason than that I still needed to remove some poems. I was left with several poems so I removed the longer ones and was left with these three. I reserve the right to change my mind during the expedition of the task.
To his coy mistress.
The road not taken.
Sea Fever.
To His Coy Mistress - Andrew Marvell - 1621-78.
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Had we but world enough, and time,.
This coyness, Lady, were no crime.
We would sit down and think which way.
To walk and pass our long love's day.
Thou by the Indian Ganges side.
Should'st rubies find: I by the tide.
Of Humber would complain. I would.
Love you ten years before the Flood,.
And you should, if you please, refuse.
Till the conversion of the Jews.
My vegetable love would grow.
Vaster than empires, and more slow.
An hundred years should go to praise.
Thine eyes and on thy forehead gaze;.
Two hundred to adore each breast,.
But thirty thousand to the rest.
An age at least to every part,.
And the last age should show your heart.
For, Lady, you deserve this state,.
Nor would I love at lower rate.
But at my back I always hear.
Time's wingëd chariot hurrying near;.
And yonder all before us lie .
Deserts of vast eternity.
Thy beauty shall no more be found,.
Nor, in my marble vault, shall sound.
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