To His Coy Mistress
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- Created on: 13-05-17 12:07
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- Andrew Marvell
- held office in Cromwell's government during the Restoration
- critical of both court and government
- During English Civil wars, travelled extensively
- Renaissance passion for travel
- "Thou by the Indian Ganges"
- his father died by drowning in the Hull estuary in 1641
- "I by the tide of Humber would complain"
- 1621-1878
- Metaphyiscal
- highly intellectual and complex
- thought and feeling
- love
- romance
- religion
- strange things
- conceits
- To His Coy Mistress
- structure
- AABB rhyme scheme
- 3 parts
- age of adoration
- seduction
- ideal world with conceits
- not divided into 3 stanzas
- constant stream of persuasion
- intelligent and logical
- Part 1
- "had we but world enough and time"
- takes her stance but tries to rush he
- romantic and idealised
- "love you ten years before the flood"
- biblical
- 10 plagues
- Noah's Ark
- his love is eternal
- biblical
- "till the conversion of the Jews"
- 100 years
- still waiting
- stretching out time
- "the last age should show your heart"
- "had we but world enough and time"
- Part 2
- tempo change
- carpe diem gives a sense of urgency
- "worms shal; try at that long preserved virginity"
- threatens her with images of death
- mocking
- derisive
- Part 3
- "while the youthful hue"
- living whilst young
- passionate, enthusiastic and energetic
- tempo change
- builds in anticipation
- "amorous birsds of prey
- violent, intense
- "and tear our pleasures with rpugh strife"
- melodrama
- archaism
- "through the iron gates of life
- eternal
- "through the iron gates of life
- though we cannot make our sun stand still, yet we will make him run
- can't stop time
- underlying lightness
- extended sentence
- adamant
- dramatic conclusion
- carpe diem
- "while the youthful hue"
- monologue
- no chance for interjection
- male chauvinism as assumptions are made on her behalf
- gives important wprds a capital letter German technique
- no chance for interjection
- other poems
- The Flea
- metaphysical
- persuasive argument
- She walks in beauty
- Ae fond kiss
- At an inn
- passion
- The Flea
- structure
- worked for John Milton
- freed him from prison
- wrote a poem in Paradise Lost
- after his death, his housekeeper, Mary Palmer claimed to be his wife but this was proved to be untrue
- held office in Cromwell's government during the Restoration
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