The document provides context about the English Restoration period and details about the poet Andrew Marvell and his famous poem "To His Coy Mistress." It summarizes the poem, describing how the speaker initially promises to wait forever for his mistress but then shifts to urging her not to delay as time passes quickly. Key themes are the value of time and seizing opportunities before they pass. Figurative language includes metaphors, hyperbole, and a logical argument structure.

1. The Restoration
Andre Marvell
To His Coy
Mistress
by: Douha Almansour
Maram Aljehani

2. The Restoration Period
*The English Restoration began in 1660 with the
restoration of the Stuart Monarch Charles II to the English
throne.
*This period is referred to as a new age because it was
totally opposite of the rule of Cromwell, who shut down
theatres and anything that was considered immoral.
*In the Restoration Period, there is no place to feelings
and imagination. For the Restoration Period people, it
was best to live a calm, civilized life, governed by reason.

3. The Restoration and the Eighteenth
Century (1660-1785)
*Many scholars think of it as properly three
discrete literary eras: the Restoration (1660-
1700), dominated by Dryden; the Age of Satire
(1700-1745), dominated by Swift and Pope; and
the Age of Johnson (1745-1790), dominated not
only by Johnson but by a new kind of poetry and
a major new literary form, the novel.

4. Themes of the Restoration Period
*Themes in Restoration Period are polite society,
politics, town themes and intellectual topics of
men who talk in clubs and coffee houses.
*In the era of the Restoration, Dryden’s
occasional verse, comedy, blank verse tragedy,
heroic play, ode, satire, translation, and critical
essay.

5. Andrew Marvell
*Andrew Marvell, an English poet, politician, and
satirist, probably wrote "To His Coy Mistress"
between 1650 and 1652.
*It was first published in 1681 (by his housekeeper!)
several years after his death. Since then, it has
become one of the most famous poems of its kind.

6. *Marvell belongs to a group commonly known
as the "Metaphysical Poets." The group includes
some other poets : George Herbert, John
Donne, and Richard Crashaw – all from the
1500s and 1600s. Their poems are famous for
the surprising (and, at times, shocking and
daring) use of language to explore BIG questions
about love, sex, the earth, the universe, and the
divine.

7. *The Metaphysical Poets celebrated imagination
and wit. Wit often involves a lot of wordplay.
Like "To His Coy Mistress," their poems often
take the form of an argument or a line of
reasoning (similar to what a lawyer might use in
court).Such arguments are often parodies of
actual arguments.
*The Metaphysical Poets also would frequently
use their work to critique aspects of society,
politics, and art that they see as flawed.

8. The Title
*The author added the title, using the third-person
possessive pronoun "his" to refer to the young man.
*The word "coy" tells the reader that the lady is no
easy catch; the word "mistress" can mean lady,
manager, caretaker, courtesan, sweetheart, and lover. It
can also serve as the female equivalent of master.
*In "To His Coy Mistress," the word appears to be a
synonym for lady or sweetheart. In reality, of course,
Marvell wrote the entire poem.

9. The Persona (The Young Man):
*Although Andrew Marvell writes "To His Coy Mistress" in first-
person point of view, he presents the poem as the plea of
another man (fictional, of course).
*The poet enters the mind of the man and reports his thoughts
as they manifest themselves. The young man is impatient,
desperately so, unwilling to tolerate temporizing on the part of
the young lady.
* His motivation appears to be carnal desire rather than true
love; passion rules him. Consequently, one may describe him as
immature and selfish.

10. *The speaker in Andrew Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress'; is a man
who is addressing a silent listener, who happens to be his
mistress.
*In this dramatic monologue the speaker tries to explain his
feelings to his mistress.
*The speaker uses many allusions to empires and other objects,
events and ideas that are not directly related to his feelings, in
order to explain how he feels. He uses these allusions to
exaggerate his feelings in order to clearly show them.
After reading over the poem once, you get a sense of what •
the speaker is feeling.
*Upon further analysis of the poem you realize that the •
allusions used in the poem, are in fact, what makes this poem
so interesting.

11. The Poem and explain it :
To His Coy Mistress •
By Andrew Marvell •
Written in 1651-1652 and Published in 1681 •
Had we but world enough, and time •
This coyness,1Lady, were no crime •
We would sit down and think which way •
To walk2 and pass our long love's day •
Thou by the Indian Ganges'3side.......................5 •
Shouldst rubies4find: I by the tide •
Of Humber5would complain. I would •
Love you ten years before the Flood •
And you should, if you please, refuse •
Till the conversion of the Jews.6........................10 •
My vegetable love7should grow •
Vaster than empires, and more slow •
An hundred years should go to praise •
Thine eyes and on thy forehead gaze •
Two hundred to adore each breast,.....................15 •
But thirty thousand to the rest •
An age at least to every part •
And the last age should show your heart •
For, Lady, you deserve this state,8 •
Nor would I love at lower rate..............................20 •

12. *The first twenty lines of the poem start to talk about how much this
girl means to this particular man.
*The main character in the poem talks about how he will wait forever
to be with her. He mentions that “We would sit down and think which
way To walk and pass our long love’s day.” (st. 3-4) His views as of now
are that he wants to take his time and he doesn’t have to go
anywhere. This man certainly wants to plan things out so that it will
be perfect.
*Another line from the poem that makes him the gentleman that he is
portraying to be is “An hundred years should go to praise thine eyes
and on thy forehead gaze. “(st.13-14) The speaker is saying that we
will give praise to her eyes that are so magnificent. Her eyes are so
beautiful, because of which he will praise them for hundred years
before they can truly be together.
*Later, he mentions that he will praise her breast each for two
hundred years. The mood is set that this man certainly wants to be
with this woman. He is telling her how he feels and wants her to
understand that he really wants to be with her.

13. But at my back I always hear
Time's winged chariot9hurrying near
And yonder all before us lie •
Deserts of vast eternity •
Thy beauty shall no more be found,.....................25 •
Nor, in thy marble vault,10shall sound •
My echoing song: then worms11shall try •
That long preserved virginity •
And your quaint12honour turn to dust •
And into ashes all my lust:.................................30 •
The grave's a fine and private place •

14. *In the next twelve lines we begin to see a bit of difference in the attitude. As
of now the guy is thinking, well maybe we don’t have enough time to sit
around and wait. The chariot’s of time is pointed out by saying that it is
hurrying near. Maybe we don’t have enough time anymore. We should hurry
up and get with it.
*“Thy beauty shall no more be found, Nor, in thy marble vault shall
sound.”(st. 25-26) The speaker is telling her that if they waited too long then
she shall be dead and then they would have never gotten the chance. He is
trying to tell her that they should hurry it up.
* Later in the poem he talks about how his lust turns into ashes. The reason
is that if she passes away then he would have never gotten the chance of
getting her into bed. The man tries to show and explain to her why it isn’t the
best idea to die as a virgin. He wants to help that out.

15. Now therefore, while the youthful hue •
Sits on thy skin like morning dew,13 •
And while thy willing soul transpires14..................35 •
At every pore with instant fires •
Now let us sport us while we may •
And now, like amorous birds of prey •
Rather at once our time devour •
Than languish in his slow-chapt15power................40 •
Let us roll all our strength and all •
Our sweetness up into one ball •
And tear our pleasures with rough strife •
Thorough16the iron gates of life •
Thus, though we cannot make our sun...................45 •
Stand still, yet we will make him run •

16. *The last fourteen lines try to show how passionate it will be. There is no
reason why they should wait if it is going to be that intense. “Now let us
sport us while we may, And now, like amorous birds of prey. “(st. 33-34) The
man who began telling this woman that he will wait forever, even until the
end of time just to be with her, then went to persuading her to hurry things
up a bit because they don’t have all the time in the world.
* Now he wants to show her how extreme it will be. “Let us roll all our
strength and all Our sweetness up into one ball”(st. 41-42). There he
describes what it would be like. He thinks that the best thing that could
happen is that they can get into bed. As of now that is all he seems to care
about.
*The poem have three sections :
*first from lines 1-20, they discuss what would happen if the young man and
young woman had unlimited time.
* Second from lines 21-32, they point out that they do not have unlimited
time. *Finally from lines 33-46, they urge the young woman to seize the day
and submit.

17. The Theme
*Time is a main theme in the poems “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew
Marvell. In “To His Coy Mistress,” the speaker values time and believes
that he and his lover should take advantage of every moment, using
every passing second for their benefit. He pleas to his “coy mistress”
to stop delaying her expression of relationship and join in the love that
he openly shows to her.
*This poem deals also with the theme of Horace which is Carpe diem
quam minimum credula postero – "Seize the Day, putting as little trust
as possible in the future", and the ode says that the future is
unforeseen, and that instead one should scale back one's hopes to a
brief future, and drink one's wine.
*In conclusion, the speaker in “To His Coy Mistress” made the better
use of time. He attempted to value every moment and live life to its
fullest.

18. Figurative Language
*Startling comparisons or contrasts of a metaphysical (spiritual,
transcendent, abstract) quality to a concrete (physical, tangible,
sensible) object. In "To His Coy Mistress," for example, Marvell
compares love to a vegetable (line 11) in a waggish metaphor.
*Mockery of idealized romantic poetry through crude or
shocking imagery, as in lines 27 and 28 ("then worms shall try /
That long preserved virginity").
*Gross exaggeration ;overstatement (hyperbole), as in line 15
("two hundred [years] to adore each breast").

19. *Presentation of a logical argument, or syllogism. In "To His Coy
Mistress," this argument may be outlined as follows: (1) We
could spend decades or even centuries in courtship if time stood
still and we remained young. (2) But time passes swiftly and
relentlessly. (3) Therefore, we must enjoy the pleasure of each
other now, without further argument. The conclusion of the
argument begins at Line 33 with "Now therefore".