To His Coy Mistress

following will over view the actions of Persse in his pursuit of love, sex, and passion while in the second half explain the importance of academia in the novel, the lack there of and a stronger importance on title to ultimately determine what makes Persse a romantic hero or not and concurring on how using the two elements mentioned helps make the novel a romance. The novel is engrossed with sexual tension. Repressed and naive Persse determined to preserve his virginity until marriage ends up…

characteristics of true love and how to achieve eternal romance. This is also shown in the poem of Meeting At Night where the poet describes his journey to his secret lover, including all of the areas he would travel through to reach her. He also describes the many areas as being beautiful and breathtaking, but overall indicates that the one thing that makes his journey worthwhile is who is waiting for him at the end. In Robert’s poem, he describes the events less like a poem and more like a…

Donne writes ‘And in this flea, our two bloods mingled be’, which can be argued to be a metaphor. The flea sucked the blood from both the speaker and the lover, causing the blood to mix together. With this line, the speaker compares the mixing of his blood with their lovers’ to the…

gratitude (Jacobi, 2016). The speaker and the people who are being referred to by the use of the first person plural pronoun, “we” might be showing appreciation because "…we all slept in trust (Moffet, 2013)” (line 22), believing the doctor is doing his/her job and trusting the doctor’s abilities. Another meaning of using the phrase "on behalf of us all (Moffet, 2013)" (line 1) is more clear. The use of the plural pronouns "us" and "we" indicate that many people are unified in the way they feel…

away? Is it something we need to live by? Or is it a motto that we need to be cautious of? In the cleverly filthy poem, “To his Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell, it’s a perfect example of the Latin notion that shows the benefits and the drawbacks of living by carpe diem. Marvell famously opens with a scare-tactic of the concept of a lover’s argument in pursuing his mistress to his sexual desires. The speaker uses the recurring motif of time and how it is…

extremely quick in accordance to the certain situation a person experienced. After all, every individual has perceived and experienced time in a distinct manner. Some have treasured time while others have detested how time passed. In the poems, “To His Coy Mistress”, “To the Virgins to Make Much of Time”, and “Sonnet 60”, the speakers made it evident that they are fond of time. With a deep realization, the speakers spoke on behalf of time and how one must treasure every moment. Time does not…

harmed by consensual love. Done’s poem “The Flea” and Marvell’s poem “To His Coy Mistress” made subtle arguments in favor of a woman’s right to…

“The “Carpe Diem” of Time, Love, and Life?” Time is in control of all people's life, because time and death are synonymous with each other. In the two pieces, Andrew Marvell’s poem, “To His Coy Mistress” and the Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poem (sonnet), “I Shall Forget You Presently My Dear”, have similar themes of “carpe diem” and how love needs to be nurture in the here and now. Love can fall into this trap of being lifeless and unsatisfying, which can cause problems in the relationship…

Love Vs. Lust (An Analysis on Views of Love in A Valediction: Forbidden Mourning, To His Coy Mistress, and To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time) Upon the dawning Renaissance, art and literature defined love in an entirely new way than it had been before. As strength of the church waned, individuality and romanticism took hold in its place. Of the arts, literature and poetry evolved more than most arts when it came to romance. In the Renaissance, poets generally told of love in the metaphysical…

Jonson, his range was greater, “as he claimed, both the private worlds of love and religion and the public worlds of political and satiric poetry and prose, his overriding concern with art, his elegant, well-crafted, limped style and the cool balance and reserve of some poems align him with Jonson.” The Norton Anthology, p1789. Robert Herrick…