cultural studies with reference to 'To his coy mistress'

1. M.K. Bhavnagar university
department of English
Name:- Rathod Neha R.
Class:- M.A. sem-2
Roll no:- 29
Email id:- neharathod108@gmail.com
Year:- 2016-2017
Paper:- 8
Topic:- cultural studies with reference to
“To his coy mistress ”

2. Introduction about poet
 Andrew Marvell born on
1621 and death on 1678.
 He was leading poet of
renaissance period.
 In his poetry love, nature
and religion are mixed up
but there is delight in the
pleasures of life.
 He also wrote political
verse and satire.
 ‘ To his coy mistress’ is
most famous of all his
poetry.

3. About Poem 'To his
coy mistress’
• Theme:- Pleasure of love
 the poet beloved is very
much shy.
 Life is very short.
 Lovers should not west their
time in a such a thing.
 They should enjoy the life.
 If they don’t use it death will
come.
 So the poet advise to his
mistress to leave the coyness
and love him.
 It’s a Metter of physical love,
the need of physical love.

4. • Argument to leave coyness
 The poem is like an ode. It address to
poet beloved.
 By the title it is clear that the lady is
very beautiful woman and she is
conscious of it.
 There is satire on her.
 This is the argument of the poet to
explain her important of time.
 Time is very short for us.
He says,
“ But at my back I always hear
Time’s winged chariot hurrying near.”

5. • Difficult Metaphors
and images
 This is aspect of
metaphysical poetry.
 The meaning is related to
love’s slow growth.
 Lyrical quality of the poem
is the supreme power of the
poet.
 This is mixed up with
philosophy of life. Love
and death.

6. • Sweetness of the poem:
 It’s a beautiful lyric. there are
all the quality make the
sweet.
 Line are like proverbial as
they are short and sweet.
 Felling are strong and
conveyed in rhythmic way.
 Powerful imagery , similes,
and metaphors help the
diction.
 Assonance and consonance
are plenty.
 Heroic couplets:
 The poem has specific
rhyme scheme.
 One line ending is matching
with another line ending.
 Such rhyme scheme is
known as couplet.
 There is rhyme scheme is
AA, BB, CC

7. “To his coy mistress” with reference
to cultural studies
• 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.

8. 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.

10. conclusion
So hear we find that Marvell failed to represent
the idea of historical fact of his contemporary
era. And so instead of that he presented theme
of love and beauty.

11. Thank you….