The clock is clicking and time is passing, so do not waste your time and make the most out of it. Andrew Marvell created a three stanza poem in where he expresses his physical and emotional needs to a woman he desperately wants something from. In "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell tones of intimate love and desperate urgency reveals Marvell's argument that in a world where time is limited, life's true meaning is to persuade his coy mistress to lose her virginity to him. Although, Marvell tries to be romantic by expressing his love to the coy mistress he comes of very demanding and pragmatic. Andrew Marvell starts of with compliments, admiration and appreciation towards the female he dedicates this poem to. His descriptive love for her
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Andrew Marvell starts with a "but" in regards that life is very short and death is very close. Marvell's tone in this stanza seems to be very demanding and urgent. He states that he feels a "Time's winged chariot hurrying near"(22), meaning time is moving rapidly. His depiction of time going very fast seems like he is in a rush. He believes death is coming and that they will not have enough time to be together. "Thy beauty shall no more be found"(25), shows his assumptions that they are getting old and her beauty will no longer be the same. In the following lines, he says that once she dies she will no longer be able to hear his poetry and beautiful words because she will be in her grave. The tone of the poem gets more creepy giving of a sense that if the coy mistress doesn't have sex with Marvell she will die as a virgin. She will then, be in a grave alone with worms and lose her virginity to them instead. Marvell specifies that in order to bring to the mistress' attention that she should lose her virginity to him before she dies. He believes she can not take her virginity with her into death. A few lines down, Marvell illustrates the coy mistress' beauty again but this time as a quaint which is a old fashion attractiveness. He supposes that this attractiveness will soon turn into dust because she is getting old. His urgency for the coy mistress gets bigger and bigger, he mentions that his desire for …show more content…
At this point of the poem, he seems to be quiet convinced that he has succeeded. Marvell is confident enough that he has persuaded the coy mistress into having sex with him, so he continues being more harsh and pushy. The first lines of the poem again begins to describe that the mistress will be losing all her youthful beauty and getting the elderly unattractiveness. With the confidence he filled himself up he believes it's normal to demand more from her. Therefore, he continues to demand sex from her, yet again repeating that he wants to have sex with her youthfulness and not when she is old. He compares her to a plant saying that all youthfulness will transpire from her like water transpires from a plant. Marvell compares himself and the coy mistress together to birds of prey, believing they should mate as birds of prey. A comparison such as this introduces a very aggressive and violent scene. He says that he is dying from getting old and the only thing to save him is sex from this coy mistress. He describes the sex he imagines as "our sweetness, up into a ball/And tear our pleasures with rough strife"(42-43). He first describes it romantically as a sport and finishes off with comparing it to a more aggressive
Andrew Marvell starts with a "but" in regards that life is very short and death is very close. Marvell's tone in this stanza seems to be very demanding and urgent. He states that he feels a "Time's winged chariot hurrying near"(22), meaning time is moving rapidly. His depiction of time going very fast seems like he is in a rush. He believes death is coming and that they will not have enough time to be together. "Thy beauty shall no more be found"(25), shows his assumptions that they are getting old and her beauty will no longer be the same. In the following lines, he says that once she dies she will no longer be able to hear his poetry and beautiful words because she will be in her grave. The tone of the poem gets more creepy giving of a sense that if the coy mistress doesn't have sex with Marvell she will die as a virgin. She will then, be in a grave alone with worms and lose her virginity to them instead. Marvell specifies that in order to bring to the mistress' attention that she should lose her virginity to him before she dies. He believes she can not take her virginity with her into death. A few lines down, Marvell illustrates the coy mistress' beauty again but this time as a quaint which is a old fashion attractiveness. He supposes that this attractiveness will soon turn into dust because she is getting old. His urgency for the coy mistress gets bigger and bigger, he mentions that his desire for …show more content…
At this point of the poem, he seems to be quiet convinced that he has succeeded. Marvell is confident enough that he has persuaded the coy mistress into having sex with him, so he continues being more harsh and pushy. The first lines of the poem again begins to describe that the mistress will be losing all her youthful beauty and getting the elderly unattractiveness. With the confidence he filled himself up he believes it's normal to demand more from her. Therefore, he continues to demand sex from her, yet again repeating that he wants to have sex with her youthfulness and not when she is old. He compares her to a plant saying that all youthfulness will transpire from her like water transpires from a plant. Marvell compares himself and the coy mistress together to birds of prey, believing they should mate as birds of prey. A comparison such as this introduces a very aggressive and violent scene. He says that he is dying from getting old and the only thing to save him is sex from this coy mistress. He describes the sex he imagines as "our sweetness, up into a ball/And tear our pleasures with rough strife"(42-43). He first describes it romantically as a sport and finishes off with comparing it to a more aggressive