“To His Coy Misstress” by Andrew Marvell is an extremely interesting and seductive poem about love. Marvell does an excellent job of making his thoughts unmatched and original. The poem divides up into three main parts, each with a slightly differnt main idea. The final part of the poem represents how the author and his mistress plan to spend this fleeting time. In the first half of Marvell’s poem is that of imagery which sems to turn down time in favor of love. “To walk, and pass our long love’s day” (663).
To wall gives us the impression that they are calm and in no rush. Marvell gives us the felling that he is not in a hurry. “This coyness, lady, were no crime” (663).
This line lets us know that he is talking maybe to a more or less young woman, the object of this older gentleman’s eye. In the time the poem was written it was known that for a pretty woman, when found interacting with an available man, she is to des paly shyness or unwillingness at least for awhile.
Marvell makes reference to past and future events on a grand scale. He starts with “I would love yu en years before the Flood.” This tells us that even before the flood he was already loving her. Another example is when he uses “My vegetable love should grow.” Here he is telling us that his love is slow growing. This is also an image of an all-conquering vine which words its way through a forest or field, overtaking large spaces until it becomes “vaster than empires.” In the first part of the poem he is calm and in no rush.
The Essay on Coy Mistress Love Poem One
The stereotype of poetry is that poems are written to exemplify a relationship between two people who are so infatuated with each other it is said that they are 'in love' and this can give meaning to what is commonly referred to as a love poem. Poets John Donne and Andrew Marvell write such poetry however, their poems 'A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning', and 'To His Coy Mistress', consider two ...
The second part of the poem takes a faster pace. “A hundred years should to to praise / Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze; / Two hundred to adore each breast, / But thirty thousand to the rest; / An age at least to every part.” These lines symbolizes the lack of time the lover has to show on his mistress the love she is worthy of. “Time’s winged chariot hurrying near.” This means that time is racing toward our end. Marvell also lets us know that if they do not hurry all they will have is “desert of vast eternity.” This means merely the emptiness of a desert. He also tells her that if she does not give up her “long-preserved virginity” it will “turn to dust.” In other words, she needs to give it up now before she gets old, and before all his “lust” turns to “ashes” or before he dies. The last part of the poem talks about how they shall spend their time.
“Now let us sport us while we may, / And now, like amorous birds of prey.” With this line he is telling his mistress lets make love now! Like wild anmials. In the lines “Let us roll all our strength and / Our sweetness up into one ball”, the author can not put it any more clear than that. This man wants to get it on until it is their time to go “thorough the iron gates of life”, or until we die. The author ends by writing “we cannot make our sun / stand still, yet we will make him run”, meaning we cannot stop the sun from coming but we can sure melt it with our passion. In the first part of the poem the author is in no hurry. In the second half he talks about how tine is catching up with them.
And last but not least, the third part talks about what could happen if they were to make love. We all have the choice either to take advantage of time or allow time to take advantage of us.
