Exploration of Pre - 1914 Poetry I have chosen to study two poems closely; these are "To His Coy Mistress" and "The Beggar-woman". Both of these poems deal with sexual relationships between and a man and a woman. Andrew Marvell wrote "To His Coy Mistress" in the 17th century. It is a long poem with three verses, which create three different parts of the poem. In section one (verse one) he seduces her saying he would take years to admire her, for example, "A thousand years should go to praise", this is indicating he will take their relationship slowly and love her. In section two (verse two) he starts to scare her creating an evil imagery using words like "eternity", "turn to dust" and "grave". He is telling her time is running out for them and they should have sex now and not wait. The last section (verse three) he starts to hurry her up, and uses violent imagery like "birds of pray", this is used to scare her into sleeping with him but he also carries on persuading her to sleep with him like in section two. The tome of the poem is dark and serious towards the end of the poem, at the start it is a rich beautiful imagery. Even though he starts the poem with rich imagery but he still manages to keep the poem sinister using death imagery. The poem was written in modern speech but now the language is considered as old-fashioned. An example of old language is "Thy Beauty", is in the days it was wrote would have meant your beauty. Also most of the poem is wrote in rhyming couplets, this gives the poem a general rhythm, for example lines one and two end in 'time' and 'crime'. There is an example of a metaphor, which fits well with the poem because the whole poem is one big exaggerated poem, so metaphors fit very well because metaphor simply exaggerate things, one metaphor in this poem is on lines 11 & 12. "My vegetable love should grow, faster
The first two lines of the poem set the mood of fear and gloom which is constant throughout the remainder of the poem. The word choice of "black" to describe the speaker's face can convey several messages (502). The most obvious meaning ...
...he imagery of the more intensely-felt passages in the middle of the poem. Perhaps the poet is like someone at their journey's end, `all passion spent', recollecting in tranquillity some intimations of mortality?
lust. To his Coy Mistress is a pure lust one even though in parts may
if he is to see a ghost then he will become wiser for he would know
The poem's speaker mistreated,gloomy and being isolated. She is a person who loss and assimilation if not loose your self. “That this
The ethical life of the poem, then, depends upon the propositions that evil. . . that is part of this life is too much for the preeminent man. . . . that after all our efforts doom is there for all of us” (48).
... middle of paper ... ... Academy of American Poets. 17 Mar. 2013 http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/87>.
Ferguson, Margaret W., Salter, Mary J., and Stallworthy, Jon. The Norton Anthology of Poetry. fifth ed. N.p.: W.W. Norton, 2005. 2120-2121. 2 Print.
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.
result it has on people. In all three poems the last line of the poems
The irony in this poem is the main plot of the poem. A man has taken a
The tone of the poem is described as a weary, self-depressed outlook. He is uncertain about life and his place in it. T.S Eliot uses the
The poem says that "since feeling is first" (line 1) the one who pays attention to the meaning of things will never truly embrace. The poem states that it is better to be a fool, or to live by emotions while one is young. The narrator declares that his "blood approves" (line 7) showing that his heart approves of living by feeling, and that the fate of feeling enjoyment is better than one of "wisdom" (line 9) or learning. He tells his "lady" (line 10) not to cry, showing that he is speaking to her. He believes that she can make him feel better than anything he could think of, because her "eyelids" (line 12) say that they are "for each other" (line 13). Then, after all she's said and thought, his "lady" forgets the seriousness of thought and leans into the narrator's arms because life is not a "paragraph" (line 15), meaning that life is brief. The last line in the poem is a statement which means that death is no small thi...
The tone of the poem is one of reflection and possibly regret, The narrator starts out as a man...
The mood of the final stanza is slow and sad as the season of autumn