What does “slow-chapped” mean?
Noticed it in a poem This is useful You’re probably asking about Andrew Marvell’s poem “To His Coy Mistress,” in which the speaker tells the woman he desires that life is short and she should make love to him right now. “Chaps” are jaws. The reference to time’s “slow-chapp’d power” means that time is slowly […]
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