A Close Reading of ‘To His Coy Mistress’ Andrew Marvell’s poem ‘To His Coy Mistress’ is a seduction poem where the speaker is trying to convince his ‘mistress’, who is being shy, to give up her chastity to him. He does this by using the argument of ‘time’ presenting the idea that both speaker and listener are mortal humans so for them, time is finite. Marvell writes from the perspective of the speaker however the lexis of the title, ‘To His’, implies that Marvell himself is not the speaker but an
To Coy His Mistress,” by Andrew Marvell, displays the theme of carpe diem, “the enjoyment of pleasures of the moment without concern for the future” (Merriam-Webster). Throughout the poem, the male speaker passionately expresses his desire for his innocent mistress, and he attempts to manipulate her into requiting his efforts by illuminating the brevity of life. Marvell’s work focuses on the theme of life and taking chances, and each line presents these ideas in a different tone. Despite the romantic
The author Andrew Marvell tries to convince his “coy mistress” into giving him her passion and then giving up her virginity. He is using her because she is wanting someone to love and to admire, she is in fear of losing her beauty and she is trying to hang on to her youth and is trying to persuade her that he is in love with her. He is putting a lot of pressure on her and having her believe that they have little time together. In Marvell first approach, at first he seems genuine because he has led
Stop and smell the roses, and live for today. “YOLO” or you only live once was most popular when Drake, a rapper, released his song in 2011. ““Stop and smell the roses” was a song that was donated to Start
The texts ‘The Flea,’ ‘To His Coy Mistress,’ ‘The Sun Rising’ and ‘The Definition of Love’ all have similar subjects, being love or lovers in addition to containing a male character. However, they differ in their use of language, imagery, and tone. Donne’s poems The Flea and To His Coy Mistress have the Carpe Diem or “Seize the day” theme, as all urge a character to take an advantage of the present before they miss out on life. The poem ‘The Flea,’ written by John Donne, begins with an overconfident
the poems “The Flea” and “To His Coy Mistress,” the Metaphysical Poets John Donne and Andrew Marvel wittingly construct their poems in a form of an argument, encouraging sexual relations among young women. Metaphysical Poets are celebrated for their daring criticism of society through their mixture of ordinary speech with paradoxes, puns, and conceits; they aimed to express the ultimate nature of reality. In their renowned love poems, “The Flea” and “To His Coy Mistress,” Donne and Marvel embrace sexuality
do not know how to live again afterwards. To have a fear of an emotional situation as described seems rational, although when taken out of proportion, the fear can become haunting and unhealthy. In Porphyria’s Lover by Robert Browning and To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell, both male characters put their love in danger by obsessing over the possibility of loosing love, one to the point of insanity. Many factors that could diminish a relationship, and suddenly become objects of fear once the lover
time is passing quickly, life is short and soon enough decay and death will come, so take advantage of the time we are given and live life to the fullest. Robert Herricks, “ To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time,” and Andrew Marvell’s, “ To Coy His Mistress,” both express the idea of Carpe Diem. In Herrick’s poem he is addressing all the young women who are virgins to get married before it is too late. Marvell on the other hand is addressing
Around the seventeenth century the poets Andrew Marvell and John Donne expressed their feelings through poetry. Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” and John Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning,” focuses on the topic of love, which was trending at that time. Although both poems justify the importance and essence of love, the tone differs in each poem making them distant from each other. The figurative language also makes the two poems different. However, they focus more on the action of
“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”, written by Christopher Marlowe, the speaker expresses his love for a girl with passion, while the poem “To His Coy Mistress”, written by Andrew Marvell, the speaker expresses his love for his mistresses through hyperboles. Comparing in contrasting the two poems both are very similar. Both poems express their love to their mates in excessive terms, but is one poem more sincere than the other? The poem “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” is about a man wanting