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To Coy His Mistress - Marvell
- About
- The poem seems quite persuasive to who it is directed to, as if the speaker of
the poem is trying to get his 'mistress' to express her feelings, and thus should
sleep together. The fact that he must persuade this woman to sleep with him tells
us they are not a married couple.
- The poem seems quite persuasive to who it is directed to, as if the speaker of
the poem is trying to get his 'mistress' to express her feelings, and thus should
sleep together. The fact that he must persuade this woman to sleep with him tells
us they are not a married couple.
- Context
- The author, Andrew Marvell, is
described as a Metaphysical Poet,
which is where playing on words
and images are used to convey
complex ideas and feelings,
because a lot of his poems are
around the topics of existence and
truth.
- The author, Andrew Marvell, is
described as a Metaphysical Poet,
which is where playing on words
and images are used to convey
complex ideas and feelings,
because a lot of his poems are
around the topics of existence and
truth.
- Techniques
- 1) Typical Romantic ideas are exaggerated
with humour in the first stanza, as he speaks of
spending "An hundred years" to "praise/Thine
eyes" and "Two hundred to adore each breast".
Yet, the poem starts with "Had we but world
enough, and time". He is presenting something
that could be amazing, yet knows that
something is impossible.
- 2) The Christian burial tradition of 'dust' and 'ashes' is referred
to in the Second Stanza, and is there to remind the mistress of
the one outcome of this life, and therefore there is no point in
waiting.
- 3) In the second stanza, ideas of Death and Decay are presented, and this is to show how
pointless it is for the mistress to deny her feelings for him. Once dead "then worms shall
try/That long preserved virginity". This is the speakers way of persuading his lover to give her
virginity, rather than save it for the worms when she dies.
- 1) Typical Romantic ideas are exaggerated
with humour in the first stanza, as he speaks of
spending "An hundred years" to "praise/Thine
eyes" and "Two hundred to adore each breast".
Yet, the poem starts with "Had we but world
enough, and time". He is presenting something
that could be amazing, yet knows that
something is impossible.
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