cultural studies with reference to 'To his coy mistress'

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M.K. Bhavnagar university department of English Name:- Rathod Neha R. Class:- M.A. sem-2 Roll no:- 29 Email id:- [email protected] Year:- 2016-2017 Paper:- 8 Topic:- cultural studies with reference to “To his coy mistress

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M.K. Bhavnagar university department of English

Name:- Rathod Neha R.Class:- M.A. sem-2Roll no:- 29Email id:- [email protected]:- 2016-2017Paper:- 8Topic:- cultural studies with reference to “To his coy mistress ”

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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.

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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.

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• 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.”

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• 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.

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• 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

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“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.

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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.

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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.

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Thank you….