Category: To His Coy Mistress

The Sun Rising, To His Coy Mistress, How Do I Love Thee? And Porphyria ‘s Lover, were exceptional poetry written by classical poets including Andrew Marvell, John Donne and with Victorian poets written by Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barret Browning, respectively. These 4 poems explore the same key ideas of love and relationship ranging from religious, obsessive to irrational love yet different in approach.They present these aspects of love to the audience by portraying a correlation between love, power and time through the use of various stylistic features and conventions with a wide range of language in order to convey and explore their ideas.

Andrew Marvel and Elizabeth Barrett Browning use their respective texts to explore the theme of love in their respective poems, “To His Coy Mistress” and “How Do I Love Thee”. Both authors utilise hyperbole and religious imagery to aid in demonstrating the sensual and purity of love. While both authors use hyperbole, Browning uses it to express her innocent love by measuring how much her love means to her whereas Marvel uses it to portray his resistant sexual desire. Browning uses hyperbole as a technique through her innocent love and her references to the purity of love for her husband to explore this idea. In contrast, Marvel uses hyperbole to depict the idea of love through his first stanza in relation to the extensive time, the speaker would have to wait to admire his mistress physical appearance if they had “world enough and time”. By establishing the relationship between the husband and her, the author portrays her to love him endlessly “to the depth and breadth and height”. Browning likewise emphasizes her grand love by using personification and hyperbole to express her love is wide as “her soul can reach”, indicating a powerful image by utilizing the word “soul” to demonstrate that everything she is, desires to praise him and his gratitude. Marvel furthermore compares the ideal situation of being able to express his love and commitment with him spending “a hundred years…to praise thine eyes, two hundred…. for breast and thirty thousand… for the rest” of the mistress body. Furthermore, as both texts use religious imagery, the correlation in both texts similarly reinforces the notion of sensuality and purity. Browning’s use of religious imagery, in contrast, is scattered throughout rendering the lover appear like God-like ‘ideal grace’ and ‘praise’ while in Marvel’s text, the religious imagery represents the speaker’s declaration on the amount of time it would take to love his mistress and to turn his love aside. In the first four lines, Browning implies the serious nature of her love that contains a spiritual power that can extend into the afterlife. The mention of ‘faith’ in line ten further reinforces the religious imagery of the speaker as she loves her husband through ‘smiles and tears’ with the same zeal that she once had as a child. However in Marvel’s text, the explicit imagery of “ten years before the flood’ and ‘Conversion of the Jews’ emphasizes Marvel’s allusion to Noah’s flood which is a religious symbol for an infinite distant past and his sematic beliefs of the ‘conversion of the Jews’ to indicate Christ’s emergence just before the end of the world. In addition, Browning uses anaphora to show her deep, passionate love, as she repeats “I love thee”. This use of this language further emphasizes her feelings of gratitude for the profound effect that her love has had on his life. Marvel highlights by using specific incidents in the distant past and future, that the speaker will go back in time and forward all while still loving her unconditionally.

Robert Browning and John Donne through their respective texts “Porphyria’s Lover” and “The Sun Rising” demonstrate the themes of love and relationships with each author exploring power as a consequence of love. Both authors build a narrative’s point of view in their respective texts; however, utilise a different context in order to portray it. While Browning and Donne have incorporated having themes of love and relationships, Browning uses it to describe the hysteria of the speaker whereas Donne explores the feelings of the speaker regarding his and his lover’s dominance over the sun. Through Donne’s use of________, he argues that his authority is more powerful than the sun as ‘he could eclipse them with a wink’ to emphasize that he doesn’t have to get out of bed to go to work. Browning use of the dramatic monologue ‘I’ gives the words a degree of immediacy, which allows the audience to feel like they’re being communicated to whereas Donne uses ‘I’ and “me” to portray the narrative’s perspective with the addition of personification. Therefore, the narrator’s unreliability in “Porphyria’s Lover” enhances as it makes audiences more conscious of the context by which the narrative is revealed. In addition, the author uses of enjambment in lines 33 and 34 of “Porphyria worshiped me… surprise…heart swell…. grew” in the build-up of Porphyria ‘s murder represents the breathless delivery of the poem by the author, indicating his suspense and insanity. Similarly, Donne use of personification as ‘Busy old fool, unruly light’ to portray the sun, presenting the sun as a character with human characteristics. It gets ‘unruly’ in the sun ‘s depiction of the speaker, meaning it interrupts the speaker and his lover in the morning as the the sun rays’ shines “through windows and through curtains” of the lovers room to further emphasise the sun’s authority that it’s failing to heed.

Similarly, throughout their respective texts, the underlying theme of time was explored by all four poets however, applied in a different sense in order to portray it. Like such, Andrew Marvel and John Donne utilized the sense that time cannot be controlled through the use of rhetorical questions and religious allusions. Andrew Marvel, in his poem To His Coy Mistress, explores the aspect of time as running out while he charms his lover into losing her virginity whereas Donne depicts a traditional lover’s complaint about not having enough night-time with his lover. As the poem comprises of three stanzas, each representing various time intervals, Marvel does not address each stanza in chronological order but instead goes from the illusionary past into the future. However, through Donne’s use of rhetorical questions “Must thy motions lovers seasons run?”, Donne demonstrates that time is designed to stand still while people make love as it wipes away all reality. Correspondingly, much like Donne, in Marvel’s poem with the use of religious allusions, Marvel explains that if they had enough time, they could, “…Walk, and pass our long Loves. Thou by the Indian Ganges side…I by the Tide of Humber…” before quickening the pace through the temporal transition of “Had, But, and Now”. By utilising the word “had”, the speaker is portraying the past tense and further implying that the first stanza is in fact in the past that stretches on for centuries building up to the next part, ‘now’. In contrast to this, Robert and Elizabeth Browning, glance at time from a different perspective entirely. Robert Browning depicts the frustrating notion of time by converting the metaphorical saying of ‘capturing a moment’ to reality in Porphyria ‘s Lover by murdering someone in order to keep the moment of time indefinitely whereas Elizabeth Browning timeless love that will not disappear until they die, but rather go on eternally. Conclusively, theses four classical poets respectively portray their stylistic techniques.

Every poem has its own way to interpret the message that the author is trying to convey. This happens through the usage of figurative language. The poems “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” by William Shakespeare and “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell have their own interpretations of a mistress through a variety of elements, but both are very different. The difference between “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” by William Shakespeare and “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell are the figurative language which includes similes, hyperboles, and the overall message.

When it comes to the author from each poem, they are two different individuals with different writing styles. William Shakespeare, who is a poet, actor, and playwright, was born in 1564. His works consist of plays, poems, and sonnets, which are known to capture emotions from others with his innovative and traditional styles. One common poetry element Shakespeare used for his plays were blank verse. Some of his well-known plays include Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet. Throughout his lines of work, Shakespeare was able to create unique pieces that talked about life, love, and many more. With all his hard work, Shakespeare became a well-known poet. On the other hand, Andrew Marvell, who was born in 1621, got his political reputation overshadowing his lines of work in poetry. Marvell is well-known as a satirist and Metaphysical poet, which means his works consist of intellectualized and strange content. He expresses his thoughts about different topics uniquely and differently compared to other poets. Marvell spent most of his time in Parliament, so his works were not published until he died. One of his classic metaphysical poems is called “To His Coy Mistress”, which is used in the English literature today. Today, this poem is used commonly to convey the usage of hyperbole and other figurative languages. Both Shakespeare and Marvell are romantic poets; however, Marvell tends to change his perspective about love. Therefore, his change in personality can be seen in his poem “To His Coy Mistress” through the usage of hyperbole.

Hyperbole is a figurative language used to exaggerate a certain topic or situation. This can be well expressed in the poem “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell. The speaker, in this poem, expresses his love for his mistress and slowly becomes more demanding when he couldn’t get what he wanted. For example, when the speaker said, “I would love you ten years before the flood”, he exaggerates how much he would love her, but in the end, all he wanted was to use the mistress for his sexual desire (Marvell, 7-8). Although the speaker spoke positively towards the mistress, his selfishness overpowered and lead the poem from being romantic to unpleasant. The speaker’s attitude changed drastically throughout the poem. On the contrary, the poem, “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” by William Shakespeare, was also talking about a mistress, but instead of complimenting her, the speaker compared her to the opposite of beauty. He expresses exaggeration through the comparisons that were made, making the mistress seem very unattractive. Consequently, the author used similes to describe those comparisons.

A simile is a figure of speech used to make a comparison between two different things that have similar qualities. Similes use the words “like” or “as” to show what is being compared. However, in the poem, “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” by William Shakespeare, the speaker compares his mistress to the opposite of someone who is beautiful. In other words, he was insulting her through false comparisons and does not use “like” or “as”. For example, when the speaker says, “If hair be wires, black wires grow on her head”, which means he is comparing her hair to wires and usually wires are lifeless and dull (Shakespeare, 4). The speaker continues to compare his mistress to things that were supposed to be beautiful, but in his mind, his mistress was not beautiful. From her lips not being red to her breath being smelly. This poem was filled with insults and some of them were exaggerated. Usually, a mistress has something that attractive, but in this poem, it is the opposite. Nonetheless, she is still the speaker’s mistress and he still cares about her.

To conclude, the poems “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” by William Shakespeare and “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell had more differences when it came to the overall message and the usage of figurative language. The message from both poems shows how different the speaker treats their mistress. With the help of figurative language, the meaning can be expressed clearly. One poem had more hyperboles and the other had more similes. When poems use a variety of figurative language, it helps express a deeper meaning of the message that the author is trying to convey.

Introduction

Andrew Marvel’s ‘To His Coy Mistress’ and Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnet 116’ address the subject matter of love but two different perspectives. As evident in the poems, the speakers perceive and speak of love differently. As ‘To His Coy Mistress’ focuses more on the seduction and sexual expression of love whereas Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 is more about spiritual love which is platonic and goes beyond physicality. While ‘To His Coy Mistress’ is more about making the most of what we have today as the speaker is trying to persuade his lover by using the importance of time.

Analysis of William Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnet 116’

In the first stanza of the poem when the speaker states “let me not to the marriage of two minds| admit impediments.” The speaker is talking about how he does not want to say anything or get in the middle of people who have mutual feelings for each other or people who have the same mindset. Right after that he starts off by saying ‘love is not love| Which alters when the alteration finds,|Or bends with remover to remove’. In these lines the speaker is trying to state that the love is a feeling which cannot be hampered or reduced by any particular incident and should not fade over time or in other words ‘love is not harvested by time’s sharp edge’-(Virgil.Norton Anthology,Norton,2005). Love might face a lot of challenges and obstacles on the way but nothing should affect the way one loves another.

Distance or even death cannot alter the feeling of love for each other. In the second stanza, the speaker starts off by saying that although love binds two people very strongly and nothing should change the feeling of love one has for another, but it is also a very delicate relationship. A small act of unfaithfulness or betrayal may leave a permanent scar and break the trust; which is the main foundation of love. Hence one should not take any relationship for granted. In the second line of the second stanza the speaker states ‘That looks on tempests and is never shaken’. In this line the speaker is stating that no matter what crisis one goes through the love should not be compromised and should not be shaken. In the third line of this stanza the speaker states ‘it is the star to every wandering bark,| whose worth unknown, although his height be taken’. ‘In these two lines the speaker compares love to the ‘pole star of every ship; it’s worth be unknown but its degree (location) be known’-(Ref: Juda,David ‘Shakespeare online’ND). By this line the speaker is implying that true love is often taken for granted and its worth can never truly be measured although its height can sometimes be determined by the extent to which one might be willing to sacrifice for his loved one.

In the third stanza the speaker has stated that although the spark and physical beauty of love will surely fade away with time but true love will surely remain constant till end of time and no external physical appearance can hamper the amount of love one has for another. In the final couplet the speaker challenges the reader that if he is proven wrong then he will never write again and that no man has ever truly loved. By stating this the speaker has expressed his confidence of his analysis of love.

Analysis of Andrew Marvel’s ‘To His Coy Mistress’

In the stanza of the poem the speaker acknowledges about the softer and subtle platonic side of love where his tone is on a more romantic side of love. It can be seen in the first two lines, the speaker stated ‘Had we but world enough, and time,|This coyness, lady, were no crime.”. In these two lines itself the speaker is placing a condition that as time is passing by quick. Therefore, she will have to make her decision fast.

In the later part of the stanza from lines five to seven he further mentions that he will be at the ‘Indian Ganges side’ and she will be at the ‘Tide of Humber’. He was exaggerating in this part of the stanza as the places he stated were miles apart from each other, as one is in India and one is in England and at that era when the technology was not as advanced as it is today it was not practically possible to communicate.

From lines ten to twelve the speaker states ‘love you ten years before the flood,| And you should if you please, refuse| till the conversion of the time of the jews’ here the speaker is using biblical reference in order to further explain to his lover how much he would adore her beauty. In this line the speaker is using a visual imagery to further explain how long he would woe her beauty.

Later in the stanza the speaker is using metaphors such as ‘my vegetable love’ to explain that how if he had enough time he would take things slow and love her day in and day out. In the second stanza of the poem the speaker changes his tone and states that time is ticking really fast and though he would want to adore her beauty for an eternal amount of time but unfortunately the time is not in their favor and shall not be wasted any further and should rather be used by celebrating their carnal desires. He also states in this stanza that she should not be wasting her youth and ‘long preserved virginity’ getting wasted in the coffin after she is dead; ‘although grave’s a fine and private place’-implying that she will decay. Through these lines he is trying to persuade his mistress to give up her coyness and to fulfill their sexual desire at the earliest, as the clock is ticking away.

Comparative Analysis of ‘Sonnet 116’ and ‘To his Coy Mistress’

The poems ‘Sonnet 116’ and ‘To His Coy Mistress’, both are love poems although they differ in many possible ways, but both brings out a lover’s yearning for his beloved. Lines such as ‘let us roll our strength and all out sweetness| up into one ball and tear our pleasure with rough strife’ the speaker is providing the reader evidence of his dominant sexual desire. While some may argue that the speaker’s love for his mistress is not ‘real’ and may only be tied to his sexual desires. It can also be said that in order to have such a strong physical desire, one must have very strong feelings for that individual or here referred to as his ‘coy mistress’.

Shakespeare’s sonnet 116 surely celebrates love in a more platonic manner and love here takes a more spiritual form when the connection of ‘love’ is more about feelings and can be more generalized and not necessarily among two lovers. It can also be said that ‘Sonnet 116 can be described more as connection between two people or relationship among two individuals based on trust and empathy. This is more evident when the speaker states ‘love is not with his brief hours and weeks| But bears it out even to the edge of doom’.

Conclusion

Both the poems have similar theme; which is ‘love’, but in different dimensions. As discussed earlier Sonnet 116 speaks about the general love which can be among anyone and how it can be strong, yet fragile love is and how beautiful and yet how damaging love can be. However, the poem- ‘To His Coy Mistress’ the speaker is more specific about what he wants from his lady, whom he is trying to woe and also gives us an illustration about the importance of seizing the time as both time and youth are perishing away real fast.

REFERENCES

1. http://www.farlimas.com/Shakenew/sonnets/paraphrase/sonnet116p.html
2. https://owlcation.com/humanities/Summary-and-Analysis-of-Sonnet-116-by-William-Shakespeare
3. https://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/shakesonnets/section7/
4. https://owlcation.com/humanities/Analysis-of-Poem-To-His-Coy-Mistress-by-Andrew-Marvell

Cavalier and Metaphysical poetry are two emerging types of poetry styles that became more prevalent in 17th century England. The two forms of poetry are different in style, topic, and in form. Cavalier poetry has a rhyme scheme, while Metaphysical poetry does not. Yet, their themes are very different, one speaks about emotion while the other speaks more on comparisons. These two types of poems also have “seize the day” mentalities.

Cavalier poems, like Thomas Carew’s Ingrateful Beauty Threatened, have a set rhyme scheme. Thomas Carew’s poem is set in an ababcc scheme, also known as a Venus and Adonis stanza (Stanzas). In Metaphysical poems like John Donne’s Holy Sonnet 10, there is no indicated rhyme scheme throughout the entirety of the poem. The sonnet seems to have a set scheme in the beginning, but the form later dissipates as the poem goes on.

While reading many other cavalier poems, it is seen that there’s a common theme amongst each. They all pertain to life or a type of emotion. In Ingrateful Beauty Threatened, the angry emotions that the author shows is exemplified when he says that he “gave thee thy renown; thou hadst, in the forgotten crowd of common beauties, liv’d unknown” (Ingrateful,2-4). He shows an angry and snide tone towards Celia, that he made her what she is and that she was a nobody, and nobody would know about her if it wasn’t for him and his words. This tone is obvious until the last few lines of the poem, where his tone becomes remorseful and seemingly full of grief. Yet, metaphysical poems don’t rely on the same theme as cavalier poems do. These poems are full of irony and they consistently make unusual comparisons (Metaphysical Poets). In Holy Sonnet 10, the topic is death. The author states that death is not self-reliant, but rather it is “a slave to fate, kings, and desperate men” (Holy Sonnet 10,9). This is ironic because rather than death being its own entity, it is controlled by the decisions of other happenings. Death is controlled by whether a king dooms his subjects by killing them, by any man killing others, and fate or chance. We see the differences in tone and subject, while one talks about straight-forward feelings, the other relies on intellectual analysis of their subjects.

The one thing that ties these two types of poems is their “seize the day” mentality. In Robert Herrick’s To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time, it speaks of the urgency every virgin should have to get married. They should get married before they become “the worse, and worst times still succeed the former” (To the Virgins,11-12), they should take advantage of their youth to get married before they become older and older, therefore making their way and condition of living worse! Andrew Marvell’s To His Coy Mistress, the “seize the day mentality” is tied into the theme of lack of time. The author shows a small dose of desperation to get his lover to stop being shy or “coy” because there isn’t enough time in the world for her to do so. If she pushes away her shyness he would take ages to love at “least every part” (To His Coy, 17) of her. He tells her that there is no time to waste and that with the time they have now, before her beauty fades and she passes away. Although the ending of the poem showed some tones of passion and slight gruesomeness, the carpe diem tone is incredibly prevalent.

These two poems are similar in one big way, their sense of “seize the day”. Yet, they have many differences in the way of tone, subject, and rhyme style. While Cavalier poems speak more on emotion and acknowledgement of feeling, Metaphysical poems touch base on comparisons between two unlike things. Although these poems are different in many different ways, their carpe diem attitude is what ties these two together.

In Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,” the shepherd promises certain pleasures if the person he loves will “come live with [him].” The shepherd promises for his love in lines 15-16 “Fair lines slippers for the cold, / With buckles of the purest gold.” amd in lines 17-22,“A belt of straw and ivy buds, / With coral clasps and amber stud,” which is idealistic because in the sixteenth century, gold and other precious metals were not readily available to the general public to purchase. Also, even if one could somehow acquire these expensive luxuries, a shepherd in the 1500s would most likely not have been wealthy enough to afford them. I imagine that a shepherd’s daily life would realistically be very laborious and difficult back then handling all the sheep and having to personally create clothing from wool because resources then were not as advanced as they are now.

In “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd,” , the nymph finds that there are flaws in the shephard’s idyllic vision. Among the shepherd’s many promises of material luxuries, like when he promises “A belt of straw and ivy buds, / With coral clasps and amber stud,” she knows that the shepherd realistically does not have enough money to bestow her with this luxury item. Also, when the shepherd promises they will “sit upon the rocks, / Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,” the nymph questions how they will be able to spend time together like this when the shepherd has many tasks to complete in his daily life. These idealistic visions lead the nymph to conclude if there really could be “truth in every shepherd’s tongue,” which clearly shows how she believes the shepherd is lying about being able to provide the nymph with all his promises. The nymph agrees to live with the shepherd if youth could last forever and if the weather could forever be in their favor. She knows that what the shepherd promises does not really make sense when she factors in the circumstances, and she makes this clear throughout the poem that she believes these promises are too good to be true and, thus, are not possible.

The tone of the nymph’s response to the shepherd is realistic and disbelieving of the shepherd’s promises of luxurious living and gifts, which is explicitly clear when she says if there really is “truth in every shepherd’s tongue.” In lines 14-15, “Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies. / Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten,” she conveys that she understands that what the shepherd promises her are not very practical and he will not be able to follow through on his word or these luxuries will not be able to last for long.

This romantic escape motif is used today in television, movies, music, and literature. In music, a common theme is love and musicians often profess their love through musical lyrics by swearing that they will give whatever to the ones they love whatever they want. Love is also a very central motif in television and movies, and often the males will make promises that seem delightful to the women they love, such as going away and promising a perfect, quiet, luxurious life that is different than the one she is currently living.

In “To His Coy Mistress,” Marvell is comparing time to a chariot coming to collect someone, signaling that his/her life is over and that no one can escape time. Because of this image, I see a person trying to run as fast as possible from the chariot and extremely tired, scared, and regretful; Simultaneously, I see this person pleading to God to grant him/her more time to do what he/she was too afraid to do earlier in life.

The speaker in Herrick’s ”To the Virgins” says that women should just get married already, so they do not have to spend the rest of their lives alone because they will eventually get married anyways. In this sense, marriage is inevitable, so women should accept their fate and just agree to marriage earlier. I think the speaker in Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” does not feel that marriage is an important task that must be completed as soon as possible like the speaker in Herrick’s poem. The speaker in Marvell’s poem is mainly encouraging his mistress to live in and enjoy the moment with him, showing how he would rather take his time, unlike the urgency of time and marriage represented in Herrick’s poem.

In Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress,” an example of a hyperbole is in line 2, where he compares his mistress’s coyness to being a crime. He is frustrated that his mistress is not responding to his advances and makes an exaggeration to represent this feeling. Marvell also uses understatement in his poem, which is evident in lines 31-32, “The grave’s a fine and private place, / But none, I think, do there embrace.” This is an understatement of everyone’s inevitable fate, death. This understatement also has the purpose of providing relief from the quite serious subject and tone of the poem and lightening the mood.

Herrick uses the reference to the sun as a way to show how time is fleeting. In lines 5-8, the sun is referred to as the “glorious lamp of heaven,” which means that each time the sun sets, its light burns out and showcases that life is getting closer to coming to an end each time as well. Marvell uses the reference to the sun as a way to personify time and showcase how it is inevitable that time will run out eventually. The last two lines of Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” essentially means that as unfortunate as it is that time, which represents life, will eventually come to an end, the best thing to do is spend as much time living life to the best of one’s ability before it runs out.

Marvel is a poet attracted by complexity and paradox. He refuses to oversimplify the themes and experiences he explored in his poetry, whether it is idyllic or public political work. His best poems often show ambiguity and irony. This is not just a stylistic approach, but Marvell likes to see a multifaceted reflection of seemingly simple situations. In addition, Marvell was artistically influenced by other metaphysical poets such as John Donne. He avoided cliche and poetic conventions and used clever and complicated logic and inconsistent imagery to bring traditional poetic themes such as love and death.

I have read only two poems of Andrew Marvell, one is ”The Garden” and another one is ”To his coy mistress ”. So I am going to discuss the argumentative style of these poems by Andrew Marvell.

The Garden :

Andrew Marvel’s ‘Garden’ can be said to be a unique poem; it combines the concepts of romanticism and classicism with metaphysical allusions. The poet laughs at people’s constant labor for such trivial things; as being recognized in the man-made world. Human beings are unaware of the tranquil garlands that nature weaves for mortals and pursue material pleasures. Virtues like peace and innocence do not exist in humans but are rooted in nature. Only in nature can we enjoy the delicacy of loneliness; not in the guild.

The Garden uses far-fetched images and allusions, as well as a dramatic situation. There is a balance of emotion and intellect. The romantic myths about god Apollo and Pan are changing girls and enjoying nature, and the Biblical allusion to Adam’s ‘lonely’ happiness is ‘heterogeneous ideas yoked by violence together’ within the context of the argument. There is an argument about mental and physical pleasure. The poet has an idea about the mind. According to medieval philosophy, his mind is an ocean of all the things and images of the real world. He argues that his pleasure is spiritual. He prepares for the eternal flight of salvation by creating imagery of his soul flying like a dove. The idea of spiritual pleasure is related to the comparison with Adam. The idea of the garden as a separate sundial is contained in the last line. The poem is a dramatic and emotional expression of personal feelings, which is at the same time balanced with witty and intellectual ideas and allusions.

Peaceful life in nature is more satisfying than social life and the human company is the main theme of the poem. The poem has striking imagery, witty ideas, and a balance between romantic and classical elements.

”To his coy mistress ” :

‘To his coy mistress’ – poem the speaker tries to convince a lady of his love that she should do what he wants, and give herself up for him. In order to do that, he expresses his arguments in the poem being discussed.

The speaker in ‘To His Coy Mistress’ makes three arguments to convince his lady to have sex with him, one of which is that he is in love with her. The speaker says that he loves the woman that he’s propositioning. He says he would spend tens of thousands of years praising her beauty if he had that much time. He wants to rush because there is nothing about her that makes him want to rush. From her heart to her surface beauty, he finds her to be perfect. This is an attempt to impress her. He says that time is fleeting. If she isn’t willing to move faster, she will go to her deathbed without tasting the pleasures of love. Being with him is a limited-time offer according to this argument. She has the chance to have what he’s offering today.

The universal theme of this poem is that everyone should act upon their wishes before time runs out. The speaker in the poem is dying of old age or illness, but he is growing impatient because he believes that death may just sneak up unexpectedly. By ignoring the reasons for death and stressing the reasons to take action, the reader should receive the message and take action.

The passion for love is overshadowed by the logic in the poem ‘Young Love which has argumentative quality .’The poem has an unconventional theme. There is a grown-up man with a passion for a little girl. The lover tries to convince the young, immature to love him in return. He wants her to make up her mind quickly so she doesn’t have to wait until she’s fifteen. Now is the time for them to crown each other with their love because there is a chance that fate will stop them from loving each other. The originality of the poem lies in the way the argument is developed. The girl’s response is not a part of the poem, but we can imagine that she wouldn’t have resisted.