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To His Coy Mistress
When I first read “ To His Coy Mistress,” My Perception of the poem of the poem was very foggy. Just by reading the title I was already judging the coy woman. My perception of her was that she was very manipulative and a big tease and the man was just part of her game. Tha man to me was playing a game of cat and mouse; which obviously I was right! Even reading the poem again i still got the same theory, But this time I don't see him as a victim. I find him as a very lonely person who doesn't know how to let go of his lustful thoughts of a women who doesnt feel the same about him and even if she does she does not show any emotion towards him the way he wants her to.
When Andrew wrote, “ Had we but world enough and this time this coy lady, were no crime.” I still truley believe what i worte the first time, “ A normal guy chasing a women he is intrested in.” Especialy when he states, “My vegtable love should grow vaster than empires and more slow; and hundred years should go to praise thine eyes and on thy forehead gaze; two hundered to adore each breast.” He is descibing her; he is talking about how many other grovol over the same woman thhat he adores. How his love is slowly growing over time. The first time I read this I wrote, “ She is not so innocent herself!” but of course she is not. It part if the cat aand mouse game! She has to intise him of he will loose intrested. I realize now that she isnt just some whore that is trying to arouse every man she walks by, or at least not intentionally.
This “game” this coy woman is playing seems to be working. When he mentioned, “ Time’s winged charriot hurrying near.” I do believe that she is dragging on this game a little too far. I had did not realize that the...
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...e been his emotions and is lusftful image of her has been destroyed and died. That he finally realized that no matter his delusions and misinterpetation of this coy lady that his lustful thought would have to come to an end someday. “ Thus we cannot make our sun stand still, yet we will make him run. The end of his desporation finnally ended and can now see that the sun will never stand still, that he will always be chasing.
After I read “ A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature” I was able to get a different perspective on the poem. Once I read the poem again I saw the difference in my opinion from the first intial writing to this paper. Being able to read and able to open my eyes; to not judge a poem by its title. To be able to see a different outlook to the poem. It helped being able to see the different educational opions about “ To His Coy Mistress.”
Good poetry provides meaningful commentary. One indication of a poem’s success in this is the depth of thought the reader has as a result of the poem. The poems I anthologized may take different
'To His Coy Mistress' is a lyric of seduction. It is about a young man
James Dickey illustrates the pleasures and guilt that comes with an affair. The rush one gets with the fear of getting caught (Dickey 351). The narrator in the poem seems to have no problem with the affair because he clearly states he will call again if he can, proving that he is barely fazed by not remaining faithful. It is clear that both the narrator and the mistress are pressed for time in this sick lust affair they are having. Both equally nervous about being caught by a significant other or someone, but they don’t seem to care enough to end their relationship. In this case, there seems to be no act of fidelity because the narrator says he’ll see her next week (Dickey
Ruined Maid and To His Coy Mistress Both the “Ruined Maid” and “To His Coy Mistress” provide us with disturbing images / pictures of love, sex and relationships as I am about to explain. The “Ruined Maid” was written by Thomas Hardy in 1866, during the time when women didn’t have sex before marriage and they were thrown out of their village for being “ruined”. The public at that point in history had a very strict view of sex and marriage. They thought that women in particular should never have sex before marriage and they should have everything taken off them for being “ruined”.
Guerin, Wilfred L., Earle Labor, Lee Morgan, Jeanne C. Reesman, and John R. Willingham. A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 125-156.
This essay is anchored on the goal of looking closer and scrutinizing the said poem. It is divided into subheadings for the discussion of the analysis of each of the poem’s stanzas.
This portion provides us with the force of time and coyness causing the mistress’s beauty to “no more be found”. The phrase “no more be found” inserts certain connotations of lostness, being missing, and defectiveness into the audience’s mind. The diction to use “more” in the phrase instead of “not be found” implies to the reader that beauty was previously there, so the emotion of being defective is amplified. A reader can deduce that this phrase and its diction is meant to strengthen the negative feelings associated with coyness and its consequences because of the unpleasant connotations it suggests. Next, analyzing imagery within this quote also provides the audience with negative connotations, furthering the amount of hatred
“ thought he, for his heart smote him. “What a wretch am I to leave her on such an errand! She talks of dreams, too. Methought as she spoke there was trouble in her face, as if a dream had warned her what work was to be done to–night. But no, no; it would kill her to think it.
Equivalent words are deployed in “To His Coy Mistress” such as: dust and lust (Line 29-30), transpires (Line 35), birds of prey and devour (Lines 38-39), and rough and strife (Line 43). Such words add to the overall attitude toward women. Through them, the speakers divulge their scorn toward women. They also imply that women are inferior to
Tone is used in both of theses poems to help convey the message of love and what kind of love the characters are feeling, while “To His Coy Mistress” tone shifts through the poem starting out complimentary and ends up frantic and almost argumentative. It begins with the speaker telling his mistress how romantic all of this would be, “ we would sit down, and think which way to walk and pass our long loves day”(2/3) he is trying to be chivalrous. Then as the first stanza continues to Praise her and tell her that his love would be long lasting and that his love would grow even if she rejected him. He does this by saying, “ love you ten years before the flood” (8)and continues with “ my vegetable love would grow vaster than empires and more slow”(11/12). To top of the flattery he begins to explain how visually pleasing her features are, in which the speaker assigns years of time to accentuate how much he adores her features and what they are worth to him. To finish the first stanza “for lady you d...
Throughout his life... was a man self-haunted, unable to escape from his own drama, unable to find any window that would not give him back the image of himself. Even the mistress of his most passionate love-verses, who must (one supposes) have been a real person, remains for him a mere abstraction of sex: a thing given. He does not see her --does not apparently want to see her; for it is not of her that he writes, but of his relation to her; not of love, but of himself loving.
...arlots. The sex drive of a man is viewed as "natural desire", wherein women it is an abominable quality. In theory, courtly love remains utopian, but its application to society is where it fails, and where Guinevere fails as well. Medieval thinking insists that women are the only guilty party in adulterous affairs, yet in theory that is all that courtly love is.
The mistress corrupts various people and is not prejudiced by social status or class. Her first appearance in Ward's novel is of a seductress. Her physique is alluring and sexual. She is not abashed by her large breasts, low cut dress, and cleavage, rather she looks proud and elegant. Her provocative body temps the crowded room including the artist. When the artist first interacts with the mistress, he was naïve to her ways. She is sitting alone with her nude breasts fully exposed. The expression on his face was not that of concupiscence, rather the surprise and awe preluding copulation. But, she was far from chaste in her intentions. Unbeknownst to the artist, the mistress had ulterior motives. She is, in this sense, a prostitute. Money corrupts
In the case of To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvall, a not-so-gentle gentleman is trying to woo a “coy” young lady with claims of love. This poem is strewn with hyperbole to the point that it becomes exactly the opposite of love. When there is such over exaggerated praise, it starts to lose the real meaning of the message. If you take a look at lines 13-18, you can see the obvious amplification:
This change in mental state accounts for the change in language from the unflattering descriptions early on to the more loving and affectionate feelings expressed later in the poem. This continued consumption of alcohol results in the speaker 's proclamation of love -- a state defined as "rare" because it will most likely be gone in the morning. It is clear in the poem that the speaker 's complex maze of attraction and derision is cyclic, transforming the unattractive innkeeper to the prized jewel of his eye on a weekly or perhaps daily basis. Through the clever use of negative descriptions and false comparisons, the author confides to paper what is effectively a bipolar relationship with the woman he both loathes and