To His Coy Mistress

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    our significant other. In the poem, “To Coy His Mistress”, Andrew Marvell tells the efforts of a man who is desperately trying to seduce his mistress into making love with him before it’s too late. With this dramatic monologue Marvell express the speaker’s admiration and desire to love the mistress through metaphors and imagery to connect to the themes of time and love. In this dramatic poem metaphors are used in the speaker’s efforts to convince the Mistress to make love. “My vegetable love…

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    Chaucer’s “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue” and Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” there are both similarities and differences in regards to gender. The representation of Marvell’s speaker as a male who uses his persistent, manipulative nature outlines his disrespect towards women, and their coyness towards sexuality. Chaucer’s uses of a female as his poems lead challenges the expected female standards of her time; not only is his female character outwardly sexual, but she uses it to manipulate…

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    “To His Coy Mistress,” is a poem about a man telling a woman that he desires her and that they don’t have much time to be together so they should love each other while they have a chance. The message of this poem is rather straight forward. The speaker used beautiful words to spell out that he wishes to sleep with the shy mistress and that they should seize the day because time never stops and no matter what they do time will continue to pass. The poem’s rhythm of alternating unstressed and…

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    of skills, education, and opportunities that were available to women in medieval England allow her some room to make mistakes, as at least she was trying to normalise women’s sexuality and that has to earn her some merit as a feminist. In ‘To His Coy Mistress’ by Andrew Marvel sex appears not to be used in an empowering way, but in a much…

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    Comparing Two Love Poems

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    Comparative love story These two poems reflect the meaning of love in a way that love out reaches everything else. In “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell, the poem speaks on a male lover who seeks an attempt to convince his female lover to seize the day. While “How Do I love Thee? Let me Count the Ways” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning expresses a woman’s love and herself being for something who she would give her life for. Both poems elaborate off of setting and theme with the use of…

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    The two poems, “The Flea” by John Donne and “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell are example of Carpe Diem and have similar theme. Carpe Diem means to urge someone to make the most of the present time and give little thought to the future. Both poem heeds romantic theme. Both poems show the sign of Carpe Diem very well. In “The Flea” Donne’s speaker says “ A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead, / Yet this enjoys before it woo” ( Donne 6-7 ). The speaker refers to a flea which has no shame…

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    Herrick And Marvel

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    In the poems To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell and To The Virgin To Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick both poems are formulated around the idea of Carpe Diem. Marvel is using his poem to prove a point that youth and love last as long as there is lust for a woman's beauty. Similarly, Herrick's states the same point that woman's love life is at peak when she's still young and beautiful. Both writers express the point to the reader not to waste time in their youth and accept that love best…

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    Coy Mistress Poem Analysis

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    In response to the poem wrote by Andrew Marvell titled “Coy Mistress,” two different authors wrote a response poem to his work. These two authors who wrote the response poem are named Annie Finch and A. D. Hope, and while their response is wrote in not only a different perspective, but the poems are different as well. The response poem authors will not address everything that is said in the original poem, but they will both give a different insight for what is said from the female point of view.…

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    Using Carpe Diem to Manipulate Women Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress,” Robert Herrick’s “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time,” and Richard Wilbur’s “A Late Aubade” all use the idea of seizing the day to seduce women. The first two poems address women who are resisting having sex and the poets are pressuring them to remember that time and their youth is fleeting and they’ll die virgin old maids if they don’t make love and get married while they are still young and attractive. Wilbur’s…

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    instance, Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress," depicts an unnamed speaker yearning to obtain a Mistress's love, but is overcome with anxiety due to his idea that life is short. Furthermore, in "When I have Fears," John Keats displays his desires to achieve fame and love, but becomes defeated upon realization that his dreams will remain as dreams and nothing more. Lastly, in Robert Browning's poem, "Porphyria's Lover," he conveys Porphyria's lover strangling Porphyria due to his desire to…

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