Presentation on Cultural Studies

1. The sense of
cultural studies
in “To his coy
mistress”
{poem} Andrew
Marvell
• Name: Panchasara Jignesh k.
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• Paper No 5 : cultural studies
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• Submitted To: S.B. Gardi Department of English
MKBU

2. Andrew Marvell
Andrew Marvell was an English
metaphysical poet, satirist and
politician who sat in the House of
Commons at various times between
1659 and 1678. During the
Commonwealth period he was a
colleague and friend of John Milton.

3. Literature is criticism of life &
mirror of society but it proves
right only when it reflects x-ray
image of reality and also of
society. As Warner says,
‘History is textual and text
is historical’ Major cultural
concern of ‘To his coy
mistress’ is to study implied
culture versus historical fact.

4. "To His Coy Mistress"
• "To His Coy Mistress" is a metaphysical poem
written by the English author and politician
Andrew Marvell either during or just before the
English Interregnum. It was published
posthumously in 1681. This poem is considered
one of Marvell's finest and is possibly the best
recognize carpe diem poem in English.

5. "To his coy
mistress" with
reference to
cultural studies
vs Modern
pandemic
Culture
• Historical fact of that time. First there are minor
difference between historical fact and new historical fact.
In 1650 great plague happens in Europe. Historical fact is
fact about past.
• Black death in great plague of London from July to
October it killed some 68,000 person and a total 75,000
in the course of the epidemic.
• Reported Cases and Deaths by Country or Territory
• The coronavirus COVID-19 is affecting 221 countries and
territories. The day is reset after midnight GMT+0. The list of
countries and their regional classification is based on the United Nations
Geoscheme. Sources are provided under "Latest News." Learn more
about Worldometer's COVID-19 data
• Coronavirus Cases:
• 238,475,254
• view by country
• Deaths:
• 4,865,138
• Recovered:
• 215,628,980

6. Some of the
absent cultural
things in the
poem….
• It does not think of poverty, the demographics and socio-
economic details of which would show how fortunate his
circumstances are.·
• It does not think of disease as a daily reality that he might
face.· It shows that wealth and leisure and sexual activity
are his currency, his coin for present bliss.
• Historical realities, a dimension that the poem ignores·
• Disease: Real and present disease What has been called
the ‘chronic morbidity’ of the population.
• Syphilis: Syphilis other sexual transmitted disease were as
real a phenomenon in Marvell’s day as in our era.
• Plague :More ominous, more wrenching, in its grasp of mind
and body of the general population

7. Implied Culture versus Historical Fact
The culture, in fact, the glorification the speaker does in the poem is totally
hiding the historical fact of Europe.
The speaker of "To His Coy Mistress" seems to be Knowledgeable able about the
poems and conventions of classical Greek and Roman Literature and about the
other conventions of love poetry, such as the courtly love conventions of
medieval Europe.
The major thing to be observed is that the poet totally ignores the "old horror"
which London populace faced that killed perhaps 35 million of people. The
Great Plague of London, from July to October, killed 68,000 persons, and a
total of 75,000 in the course of epidemic.

8. Continue…
The reality was far more different which can be called the chronic
morbidity of the population. Marvell seems to ignore the demographics
and socio-economic details of his time. Also, the speaker thirsts disease
and that into the future the speaker at the same time not to think about
such serious condition with the Society of his time is facing.
It can be said that the real world is thoroughly absent in the poem of
Andrew Marvell.

9. Conclusion
So, we can say that Andrew Marvell failed to represent the idea of
historical fact of that contemporary era. However, he presented the love
kind of idea to connect with the time.
Thus, we can say that in the poem “To his coy Mistress’’ we can find
cultural vs historical affect but the idea is failed in this poem.

10. Works cited.
• Guerin, Wilfred L., et al. A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature.
New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2007.
• Worldometers.info. 2021. COVID Live Update: 238,524,279 Cases and
4,865,382 Deaths from the Coronavirus - Worldometer. [online] Available
at:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?utm_campaign=homeAdve
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