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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", "The Garden", "An Horatian Ode" Andrew Marvell ( / ˈ m ɑːr v əl , m ɑːr ˈ v ɛ l / ; 31 March 1621 – 16 August 1678) was an English metaphysical poet , satirist and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1678.
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
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.
The poet Abraham Cowley, in whose biography Samuel Johnson first named and described Metaphysical poetry. The term Metaphysical poets was coined by the critic Samuel Johnson to describe a loose group of 17th-century English poets whose work was characterised by the inventive use of conceits, and by a greater emphasis on the spoken rather than lyrical quality of their verse.
The poem's structure was heavily influenced by Eliot's extensive reading of Dante Alighieri [4] and makes several references to the Bible and other literary works—including William Shakespeare's plays Henry IV Part II, Twelfth Night, and Hamlet; the poetry of 17th-century metaphysical poet Andrew Marvell; and the 19th-century French ...
By way of illustration, consider Andrew Marvell's poem To His Coy Mistress.. A resistant reading may develop from an alternative reading, pointing out how the representation of gender in the poem furthers the notion of gender as binary oppositions, the male is active and powerful, the female is passive and marginalized.
To His Coy Mistress, by Andrew Marvell; Eugene Onegin, [3] by Aleksandr Pushkin; Trochaic octameter. Example: The Raven, [4] by Edgar Allan Poe; Anapestic tetrameter. Examples: The Hunting of the Snark, [5] by Lewis Carroll; Don Juan, [6] by Lord Byron; Alexandrine – also known as iambic hexameter. Example: Phèdre, [7] by Jean Racine