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"To His Coy Mistress" is a metaphysical poem written by the English author and politician Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) either during or just before the English Interregnum (1649–60). It was published posthumously in 1681. [2] This poem is considered one of Marvell's finest and is possibly the best recognised carpe diem poem in English ...
"To His Coy Mistress", Marvell's most celebrated poem, combines an old poetic conceit (the persuasion of the speaker's lover by means of a carpe diem philosophy) with Marvell's typically vibrant imagery and easy command of rhyming couplets. Other works incorporate topical satire and religious themes.
His influences were Pope and the Augustan poets, Auden, and Yeats. He was a polymath, very largely self-taught, and with a talent for offending his countrymen. He wrote a book of "answers" to other poems, including one in response to the poem "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell.
To His Coy Mistress; The Unfortunate Lover; The Gallery; The Fair Singer; Mourning; Daphnis and Chloe; The Definition of Love; The Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers; The Match; The Mower Against Gardens; Damon the Mower; The Mower to the Glo-Worms; The Mower's Song; Ametas and Thestylis Making Hay-Ropes; Musicks Empire; The Garden
Simmons's collection of short stories, Worlds Enough & Time, takes its name from the first line of the poem "To His Coy Mistress" by English poet Andrew Marvell: "Had we but world enough, and time" [16] The detective in Flashback is named Nick Bottom after a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream [17]
Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed", originally spelled "To His Mistris Going to Bed", is a poem written by the metaphysical poet John Donne. The elegy was refused a licence for publishing in Donne's posthumous collection Poems in 1633, but was printed in an anthology, The Harmony of the Muses , in 1654. [ 1 ]
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This in no way precludes other goals that are often associated with sex (love, marriage, procreation), but the poem's focus on the mistress' physical "part{s}" to be adored, on "sport[ing]" like "amorous" birds of prey, on "tear[ing] pleasure with rough strife," etc, make it difficult to deny that sex is the central theme.