Analysis Of To His Coy Mistress

‘To His Coy Mistress’ was written by Andrew Marvell (1621-1678). The poem is a metaphysical poem, which was mostly used in the seventeenth century and was classed as a highly intellectual type of poetry and mainly expressed the complexities of love and life; just as this poem is. In brief the poem is about seizing every opportunity in life and not caring about the past or future. In other words ‘seize the day’. The poem also explores the nature of seduction.

In the first section of To His Coy Mistress, the speaker is attempting lure a woman to bed. The speaker laments the lack of time for his mistress’ attempts at shyness and virtue, but he also he places great emphasis on his love for her. Indeed, there is an overarching theme that time is short throughout the entire poem, but in the first section, he focuses how infinitely his love could grow if time were unlimited. He concludes this section by saying “For, lady, you deserve this state, / Nor would I love at lower rate” (600). The final line here is especially interesting as “rate” again invokes thoughts of time.

In “To His Coy Mistress” it’s about a guy trying to conquer the love of a mistress. He tells her how much time he will wait for her and his love will endure forever as long as she is with him. Later the tone changes and it’s when carpe diem takes place. He starts to say that they don’t have all the time in the world and that one day all this will end. He points out that beauty one day will end and that she should take the advantage of being with him now that she is young and beautiful and not waiting till she’s old and wrinkly. Also he mentions her virginity and says that she should have sexual intercourse before she dies because if she dies as a virgin it’s the same thing as doing it while being alive because worms will still get inside her and eat all her remains. He wants to be with her, and would’ve waited a long time to get what he wanted, but since they don’t have all the time in the world and one day will die he wants

He describes the love he feels towards her and her love towards him. He gets more excited and happy as the poem goes on. “She’ll run upstairs through the decaying porch burning with love and happiness." (453, Yevtushenko). Although things have changed and gotten old, she still burns with love at the idea of seeing him. He continues on, getting more heartfelt and emotional. He describes what happens when they finally embraced. “She’ll run dripping upstairs, she won’t knock, will take my head in her hands.” (453, Yevtushenko). His lover didn’t even bother covering herself from the rain when she ran in because she was too excited to see him after so long. He explains that only she understands him. He does not worry about how much he has changed over the years, he believes that even if they had changed, they would still love each other regardless. “Will understand my fears, observe my changes.” (453, Yevtushenko). He has absolute love and trust in her, and rests his entire entity with

To be a human in this world one is aware that time is set differently for each individual. In “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell the speaker is well alert of time, the lover arguments in favor of pursuing pleasure while he and the nameless woman are still physically together. While reading this 3 poetic paragraphs, it is noticeable that the speaker is passionate and honest while using playful images, allusion and symbolism into trying to get an opportunity with the woman to a sexual relationship before time runs out on them. The speaker in this poem uses a wide variety of different combinations of words put together.

To interpret this poem the correct way or the way I think it should be interpreted, I evaluated it by going through the theme of the poem as a whole; basically making sense of the poem in my own way. The poet presents an idea that if there isn’t any love, the sexual act in the grand scheme of things consist of amazing imagery of dancers. Nonetheless, instantly she abandons the concept that it could be an amazing thing, and instead the portrayal of beauty turns into coldness and darkness. She mentioned in the poem about wine and steak and also about a bloody newborn baby. I think she used these things like

This simile helps lighten up the mood of the poem. He then uses a metaphor in lines 35-36. These lines state, “And while thy willing soul transpires at every pore with instant fires”. This metaphor alludes to the desire that the speaker insists that his mistress has for

“To His Coy Mistress” is a masterpiece to show the courtship of the man on a mistress. In the first stanza, hyperbole with a multitude of allusion shows its admiration of the woman. For example, If the time is not a limit, he will love her forever, from time of “the Flood” to “the conversion of Jews.” The allusions, which refer to objects outside the poem itself, dramaticize his frivolous determination to love her forever. In the second stanza, understatement is extensively used to show the ironically desperation to pursue her for sex.

The narrator wants to have sex with his "coy mistress. " The use of words like ball and strength likens sex to a game. The narrator thinks of sex as a wonderful game of pleasure. The narrator also wants his mistress to bring their hardships from their everyday lives to the bedroom. The narrator went from asking his love interest for her commitment to their relationship to a passionate request for

The speaker in this poem seems frustrated; he delicately tries to inform his coy mistress that their death is near, and they still have not had sexual intercourse. In lines 17-33 the poem seems to lose the exaggeration sense and suddenly becomes serious. He (the speaker) reinsures his coy mistress that ³you deserve this state?(state of praise and high acknowledgment), ³But at my back I always hear, Time¹s winged chariot hurrying near? Andrew Marvell uses and interesting image in line 22 (the line mentioned above) when suggesting to his coy mistress that death is near. He substitutes the word ³death?for a more gentle, delicate term of ³Time¹s winged chariot? This term was probably used to prevent from frightening such a coy mistress. Marvell continues to involve the reader¹s imagination through unimaginable images. What do ³Deserts of vast eternity?look like? In fact, Marvell probably used such abstract images to suggest to his coy mistress that their future is indeterminable, and ³Thy beauty shall no more be found? Perhaps, beauty is what the coy mistress is so concerned with and the speaker in this case is trying to frighten her to have sex with him quicker. He continues to use intense imagery when describing to his coy mistress that even after death the ³worms shall try That long preserved virginity? The speaker now abstractly describes that holding on to your virginity for

Andrew Marvell's elaborate sixteenth century carpe diem poem, 'To His Coy Mistress', not only speaks to his coy mistress, but also to the reader. Marvell's suggests to his coy mistress that time is inevitably rapidly progressing and for this he wishes for her to reciprocate his desires and to initiate a sexual relationship. Marvell simultaneously suggests to the reader that he or she should act upon their desires as well, to hesitate no longer and seize the moment before time, and ultimately life, expires. Marvell makes use of allusion, metaphor, and grand imagery in order to convey a mood of majestic endurance and innovatively explicate the carpe diem motif.

He creates an aroma of sex in "pacing steed," which might be an innocent horse ride, but is possibly a sexual metaphor (the speaker being the steed.) The repetition of "wild" eyes is a sexual euphemism, furthering the sexual nature of love expressed within the poem. Even the knight’s last memory of the fairy is of a sexual nature; the knight receives "kisses four," afterwards the fairy "lulls" him to sleep. Keats's love is relatively more tenuous than Poe’s, because the fairy’s love is unpredictable, and bizarre ("In language strange she said--/ ‘I love thee true’ "). This love is also destructive, as warned by the dead men in the last stanza with their "horrid warning" that "La Belle Dame/ Thee hath in thrall!" Poe and Keats employ the their speakers’ painful experiences with love as examples of love’s ruinous consequences.

My first and immediate explanation for the poem was an address from one lover to a

On the same place where he is, he wrote the poem “To his Coy Mistress”. This poem focuses on the attitude of a man in seducing a woman. The man in the poem use metaphorical words to make his lover tempted to him. Marvell sees himself in the male character. That