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This Carpe Diem poem, rather than exhorting a woman to join him in seizing the day as Donne and Marvell do, is firmly focused on how the speaker himself intends to live his life to the full; when we realise the speaker is arguing for his own promiscuity at the expense of fulfilling a promise of commitment he made to a lover, the view becomes convincing. With this in mind, it is also easy to identify a number of ways in which Lovelace presents the speaker as having this selfish attitude.  \nHardly surprisingly, given the male-centred world in which this cavalier poet was writing, Lovelace presents only the point of view of the speaker through the continual use of the personal pronoun ‘I’ and we are not directly privy to the woman’s reaction to his argument; whilst a modern feminist reader no doubt finds the speaker’s reasoning selfish, it may be that a female of the poem’s era would not be shocked by such an egotistical male attitude. Certainly the intended private male readership at Court were not only unlikely to be offended but were probably entertained and amused by the speaker’s attitude. Nonetheless, the absence of the woman’s direct voice emphasises the speaker’s selfishness. His rhetorical questions: ‘Why should you swear?’ and ‘Have I not loved thee...?’convey not only a sense that she is in fact challenging his behaviour but also his irritation with this challenge and dismissal of it. Coming at the beginning of the poem, the questions form the basis of his argument, one which feels calculated through Lovelace’s use of a reinforcing regular ABABA rhyme scheme.  \nLovelace presents this argument in terms of the speaker’s past, present and future needs: in the immediate past, ‘last night’, he had ‘vowed to be’ committed to the woman; in the present ‘morn’, however, after ‘a tedious twelve hour’s  \nspace,’ he has decided this commitment is an ironic ‘fond impossibility’. The speaker’s immediate future, therefore, means that ‘others must be found’; his more distant future depends upon the results of his searching ‘the black and fair’but may involve returning to this woman if ‘thou provest the pleasant she.’Whilst the speaker’s future is presented as uncertain, he at least has plans and he is at least in control of the outcome; the woman’s future is conversely presented as totally dependent upon the whim of the speaker. Furthermore, Lovelace finishes the poem with an image of the speaker as ‘sated with variety’of women he will court in the meantime, which conveys a sense of greed and gluttony and a selfishness which sees the future, and therefore love, on his terms.  \nPresenting love from this male point of view allows Lovelace to use heroic maleoriented imagery of conquest. Whilst the speaker’s description of his intention to‘sound/For treasure in un-plowed-up ground’ could be considered hurtful to his lover and so selfish, perhaps the view is less convincing if we at least applaud his honesty in articulating his physical needs where he ‘must search’ among virgins. Modern readers might reflect on the often heard advice that ‘you should play the field’ or ‘get it out of your system’ before settling down, a sentiment equally valid for both men and women today. Likening himself to ‘skilled mineralists’ might also convey a brief sensitivity to treating these women carefully but any selflessness is short lived in the final stanza where the language of conquest returns emphatically with ‘s","cbCaibIHVuLfGkiD","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibIHVuLfGkiD","pdf",51905,"English","# Exemplar student response\n## Core argument: selfish attitude to love\n## Evidence and quotations\n## Context and reader reception\n## Alternative interpretations\n# Examiner commentary (AO1–AO5)\n## Overall assessment","[{\"question\":\"What central argument does the exemplar response make about Lovelace’s speaker?\",\"answer\":\"The response argues that Lovelace presents the speaker as having a selfish attitude to love, especially when his personal intentions and promises of commitment are weighed against his treatment of his lover.\"},{\"question\":\"Which poetic features does the response use as evidence?\",\"answer\":\"It cites the continual use of first-person pronouns, the absence of the woman’s direct voice, rhetorical questions, and the poem’s reinforcing ABABA rhyme scheme, linking these to the speaker’s self-centeredness.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the examiner commentary assess the response using AO criteria?\",\"answer\":\"AO1 credits consistent focus and structured debate; AO2 highlights perceptive discussion and embedded quotations; AO3 recognizes contextual awareness; AO4 says the concept of “selfish attitude to love” is thoroughly explored; and AO5 notes confident discussion of alternatives. Overall, the examiner judges it perceptive and assured, consistent with Band 5.\"}]","Love through the ages - Exemplar student response and commentary for AS Paper 1, Section B | PDF",1792467797]