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Concepts: Poetry, John Milton, England, Metaphysical poets, Garden of Eden, To His Coy Mistress, English poets

To His Coy Virgins

To His Coy Virgins The concept of carpe diem or “seize the day” is a popular poetic credo. Seventeenth century poets Andrew Marvell and Robert Herrick address carpe diem by admonishing young virgins against coyness and procrastination. Despite differences in device, motive, and narrative voice,…

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A Stylistic Analysis of Andrew Marvell’s Mower Against the Garden

Andrew Marvell’s Mower Against the Garden is the first in a series of four ‘Garden’ poems. The poem can be read literally, as a pastoral, ecological poem concerned with the destruction of the natural landscape as a result of human consumerism; in particular the fashion…

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Marvell’s Gardens: A Reading of The Mower Against Gardens and The Garden

For both “The Mower Against Gardens” and “The Garden”, the primary terms in opposition are the same: the world of nature, the world of men. The former is a realm of leisure, the latter of ceaseless, pointless toil. And yet the status granted to the…

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“The Picture of Little TC in a Prospect of Flowers” in the Context of Marvell’s Methods and Motifs

The Journal of English Literary History indicates that ‘‘The picture of little T.C. in a prospect of Flowers’ is characteristic of Marvell’s poetry both in its complexity and in its subtle use of superficially ‘romantic’ or decorative detail’. The degree in which Marvell uses detail…

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Andrew Marvell’s Representation of Tone and Symbolism as Explained in His Poem, To His Coy Mistress

Coy Mistress Andrew Marvell wrote “To His Coy Mistress” to persuade the speaker’s mistress to quicken their relationship, while Annie Finch wrote “Coy Mistress” as a rebuttal to his persuasions. These poems contained contrasting ideas due mostly to the tone and imagery Marvell and Finch…

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Metaphysical poets and the idea of nothingness

‘Annihilating all that’s made/To a green thought in green shade.’ – Marvell ‘I am re-begot/of absence, darknesse, death; things which are not.’ – Donne ‘Nothing,’ as a concept has plasticity; it can be used in a number of different ways and refer to any number…

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The Logic of Metaphor in Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress”

Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” was written when Cromwell’s Calvinism constrained liberty and free-will, and the poem exemplifies an unconventional assertion of love and sexual propositioning, while validating the request to yield in sexual activity with three “arguments”, structured into stanzas. These segments of the…

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Logical Form and Formal Logic in Andrew Marvell’s ‘To His Coy Mistress’

Dialectical structure is probably one of the major characteristics of all Metaphysical poetry. Donne was the pioneer of this type of poetry, which was marked by erudite scholarship, and difficulty of thought. It is said that a whole book of knowledge can be compiled from…

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A comparison between Living by Carpe Diem and Andrew Marvell's To his coy mistress

In Andrew Marvell’s poem, To His Coy Mistress, he writes to show that is hurrying after him and will bring death, so because of this his beloved must live by carpe diem. Marvell uses “coy” to describe his lover as she is shy, but due…

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Andrew Marvell: The Pastoral, Conveyed

Andrew Marvell’s poetry exemplifies an ancient literary genre known as the pastoral. This genre, which dates back to the third century B.C.E., represents the values of the shepherd and rustic life. Marvell’s poems “The Garden” and “The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn”…

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