Essay about Marvel to His Mistress: Carpe Diem!

Within To His Coy Mistress we see the manipulation in which the speaker uses for his own benefit through the personification of time, ‘Had we but World enough and Time’ expressing, through the personification of ‘Time’, how he would love the potential lover and wouldn’t mind her initial rejection if time was an endless matter. This attempt of flattery, seen

As Wendy Martin says “the poem leaves the reader with painful impression of a woman in her mid-fifties, who having lost her domestic comforts is left to struggle with despair. Although her loss is mitigated by the promise of the greater rewards of heaven, the experience is deeply tragic.” (75)

These lines seem a bit morbid, but I also sense the use of horror, on

One of Andrew Marvell’s techniques was metaphysical poetry, e.g. ‘vegetable love should grow’ and things contrasting between the physical and spiritual.

Comparing Andrew Marvell’s To His Coy Mistress and Robert Herrick’s To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

“Sex Without Love” is an illustrative poem about people that can just have a one-night stand. This poem suggests that the people who “make love without love” are the most shallow and uncaring people that there could be. They only care about one thing, and that is their own pleasure and not the feelings of the person they are making love to “…loveless sex stems not from some noble existential angst but simply from intellectual and moral shallowness.” (McGiveron, Rafeeq, Olds’s Sex Without Love 60). Old sees something beautiful with the way that people make love without love, she compares them to figure skaters, the routines are always beautiful, and they must be in sync or all will fail, “…it also reveals an emphasis on physical-and metaphorical- surfaces.” (McGiveron, Rafeeq, Olds’s Sex Without Love 60). This shows that there is more than meets the eye when

The use of connotative words in this piece is the foundation of this poem and it provides an idea of what this poem is going to be about. In the first stanza he describes the woman as “lovely in her bones,” showing that her beauty is more than skin deep comparing her virtues to a goddess of “only gods should speak.” In the second stanza, the reader can see and feel the love between the two people. The woman taught him how to "Turn, and Counter-turn, and Stand," showing that she was the teacher in the relationship and taught him things he thought he never needed to know. The speaker shows how when they are together, she was “the sickle” and he was “the rake” showing that this woman taught him what love is.

In the final stanza, he makes the reader sad as he assumes the inevitable will happen and she will die. He expresses this through metaphors such as a “black figure in her white cave”, which is a reference to the bright white hospital rooms and although he is the black figure he thinks she just sees a shadow which could be the grim reaper or even death himself, coming to end her journey. No one wants to deal with the sorrow of losing a loved one for good, as

George Gascoigne’s poem “For That He Looked Not upon Her” discusses the misery of love by exploring speaker’s internal conflict between the his romantic desires and his fear of betrayal. After leaving a difficult relationship, the speaker refuses to look his former partner in the eye even though he is still deeply attracted to her. He justifies his action by explaining how his desire for her will only continue to bring him distress. The speaker uses the poem’s form and diction in order to establish a dismal yet cautious tone in the poem. Furthermore, through various instances of imagery, he reveals his fear of being deceived in the future. By employing these literary devices, Gascoigne highlights the theme of human desire and how it consequently leads to the speaker’s emotional suffering.

Death is the major speaker of this poem, its persona shows how cruel and violent it can be, however she also speaks of getting everything out of life you can before death. Starting with line twenty three of the poem she begins talking about living a full life before death, "When it 's over, I want to say all my life/I was a bride married to amazement/I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms." (23-25). Being a bride married to amazement is a comparison to commitment, being with the same person every day. However in this case with a lifestyle instead. Doing amazing and memorable things every possible day you can, not letting life pass you by. This also fits perfectly with the next few lines

She suggests in the poem that it isn’t fair that the speaker gets to live, but this woman must die. This is presented in the third stanza when the speaker says,” And rooms were those to be alive, tomorrow were, a blame.” In the seventh stanza, the author in whole describes the amount of respect they have for their friend, carefully placing her head, and making the body look comfortable, and all in all hoping to make the death appear as peaceful as possible. This idea of respect can be related to guilt as for she is upset and feels guilty for why the speaker gets to live, and the only way to repay this guilt is to be as gentle and respectful to the woman’s last moments.

attention of this mistress so that he can scare her and rush her into making a

Rather than explicitly saying death is near, Marvell substitutes life?s bleakness with a ?winged chariot.? He slowly becomes more frustrated with her ?long-preserved virginity? and tires to inform his mistress that death is near and they still have not had intercourse. His frustration can be seen in his sexual pun on the word ?quaint? which symbolically refers to female genitalia. The intense imagery of genitalia is again echoed when Marvell describes to his coy mistress that even after death the ?worms shall try that long-preserved virginity? (27-28). Here the worms take on a phallic symbol, reinforcing his sexual desires. The speaker abstractly states that holding onto her virginity will do her no good because she will be

happens to one of them or if one of them dies. He says he wants them

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