This document provides a summary of Andrew Marvell's poem "To His Coy Mistress". It discusses the context of the poem including the culture and historical facts of the time period. It summarizes each stanza of the poem. The historical facts noted are the poverty in European population during this era and the Great Plague that killed thousands in London from 1664-1665. The document analyzes how the poem reflects the culture and reality of the shortness of life during this time period.

1.  Name:- Vala Jyotsna T.
Roll No:- 38.
Paper no:- 8.
Topic:- “To his coy mistress” in cultural
study.
Paper Name: -Cultural Study.
Email.id :- valajyotsna7@gmail.com
Submitted to :-
Maharaja Krishna kumar sinhji
Bhavnagar Uni.

2. He was born in 1621.
He was a famous English
Metaphysical poet.
• His work:-
1). The Garden.
2). To His Coy Mistress
INTRODUCTION

3. He gives
two points:-
(1).
Culture.
(2).
Historical
Fact.

4. 5). Wealth, Happiness.
4). Use of other place
3). Image of rubies
2). Educated person
1). Words of the poem
Same point regarding:-

5. WHAT HAPPENS IN THE POEM
The speaker of the poem addresses a woman who has been
slow to respond to his Sexual advances.
 In the First Stanza he describes how he would love her if
they had an unlimited amount of time.
 He could spend centuries admiring each part of her body
and her refusal to comply would not faze him.

6. CONTI……
In the Second Stanza, he remembers how short human life
is. Once it is over, the opportunity to enjoy each other is
gone because no one embraces in the grave .
 In the Last Stanza, the speaker urges the woman to comply
arguing that in loving each other with passion they will
make the most of the brief time they have to live.

7. HISTORICAL FACT OF THAT TIME
European
population
was below
poverty
line.
Great
Plague.
Historical
Reality.

8. ABOUT POEM
In “To his coy mistress” the speaker argues that because time
will soon strip his mistress of her of her youth Vigour and
beauty, she should seize the moment, succumb to his
advances and surrender her virginity.
 He suggests especially in the final section of the poem that
to grasp sexual opportunity presents a challenge to mortality.

9. IMPLIED CULTURE
lady and his implied reader:-
1). But what does he not show?
2). As he selects these rich and
multifarious allusions, what does he
ignore from his culture?
Thus might appear to be the culture and era the speaker his

10. his currency, his coin for present bliss.
Worms and marble vaults and ashes are not present, hence
not yet real.
dissolution. But wealth and leisure and sexual activity are
In the third stanza:- He alludes to future death and

11. HISTORICAL FACT
Historical Fact means “Is a fact about the past”.
1664-65 That was when the London populace was face
with old horror one that had revenged Europe as early.
 The middle age of 14th century killing millions perhaps 25
million Europe alone.

12. The Black death in the
Great Plague of Landon.
From July to October it
killed some person total
of 75,000 in the course
of the epidemic.

13. For example, the curious can get a sense of the lived
experience by reading Daniel Defoe’s journal of the plague
year (1722), an imaginative creation of what it was like.
 Marvell’s speaker about the real world.
 The speaker and his lady knew it after all.
 May be too well.
 Maybe that is why that real world is so thoroughly absent
the poem

14. CONCLUSION
We can find culture v/s
historical fact. So literature is a
reflection of our society but
this idea is failed.

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