To His Coy Mistress Compared to Other Love Poetry

To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell is a contend numbers from the period of the renaissance. The poem appears in rhyme couplets which is different than the distinctive have it away poems, proven in sonnet form that we are expendd to from that time. The rhyming couplets are our first clue that this poem is not your typical bed poem. through and through his approach of al-Qaida, tone, and his affair of language, Marvell criticizes the love poesy tradition as it existed in his time in order to argue that we must grab the mo handst and see the reality of time and love.Marvell contradicts the tralatitious love poe exertion al-Qaida love is eonian and stable, by using a motion of carpe break-dancem. Carpe diem means to seize the moment and live for the day. Marvell does not believe in waiting for love to blossom or believing that love go away last forever as we see in Shakespeares sonnet 18, Nor shall death brag thou wanderst in his shade/ When in eternal lines to time th ough growest /So farsighted as men can breathe or spunks can see,/ so long lives this and this gives life to thee. Meaning, nor will death claim you for his own beca engross in my poem you will last forever, and if there be people on this earth, thence my poem will live on, making you immortal. The readers see the opposite of this in Marvells poem as he believes that when you die Thy beauty shall no more(prenominal)(prenominal) be be By this he means that once his mistress dies her beauty will no long-run be recognized so she must use her beauty to her avail now.Unlike Shakespeare, Marvell does not view love as passionate, beautiful or emotional. Rather, his carpe diem theme suggests that love does not last forever, and beauty will fade. He continues to get word to convince the reader that you must live for the day Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound/ My echoing song then worms shall try/ That long preservd virginity,/ And your olde worlde honour turn to dust,/ And into a shes all my lust. The graves a fine and private place, / that none I think do there embrace Through the use of this quote Marvell claims that saving yourself for everlasting love is a bollocks of time because when you die you will not be loved eternally, quite an you will be eaten by worms and your youth will be wasted. Marvells tone of prodding, morbidity, and negative attitude towards love contrasts the typical love poesy tone of delicacy, intimacy, and patience. Marvell feels that there is no such thing as eternal love. Perhaps you may think he does not believe in love at all.We first see his sarcasm towards love when he claims to give a hundred years to praise his mistress eyes, ii hundred to adore each breast, and thirty thousand to the rest of her clay in which we believe to be the waist down. However, we greatly see Marvells sense of urgency when he says nevertheless at my back I always hear/ Times winged chariot speeding near /And yonder all before us lie/ leave of great eternity. By this he means that behind him time is patrimonial up fast, save in front of him are deserts of vast eternity, and emptiness.He sees a tragedy in living for the afterlife and believes its a waste of youth. He continues the metaphor of the desert in the third stanza by talking about birds of prey who devour and hunt time. Normally, in tralatitious love poems, a poet believes that love can be eternal as we see in Spensers sonnet 75 Not so (quoth I), let baser things devise /To die in dust, but you shall live by fame /My verse your virtues rare shall eternize, /And in the heavens write your glorious name. Where whenas terminal shall all the world subdue, /Our love shall live, and later life renew. In this sonnet, communicate to his wife, Spenser claims to give her immortality in his verse, similar to Shakespeares sonnet 18. Marvells use of language, including figurative and non-figurative, and his choice of actors line, fail to evoke the passion and sweetness found in the love metrical composition of his time. Most love poems consist of softening and beautiful row to manufacture a loving and emotional theme and tone.However, Marvell uses words such as vegetable, worms, birds of prey, devour, ashes, and dust, create images that do not evoke pleasant feelings. For example, when Marvell says My vegetable love should grow/ Vaster than conglomerates, and more slow by using this hyperbole metaphor, he identifies the scale of his love for women for a vegetable to grow as vast as an empire would take longer than humans have to live.Also, the use of the word but in the opening of the second stanza suggests they dont have passable time to wait for love to blossom. The image you see when he says the worms shall try/ That long preservd virginiti creates irony because his mistress has spent her life toilsome to preserve herself, meanwhile he claims that worms will take over her body. In Shakespeares sonnet 18 he uses words that are passionate, beautiful, emotional, and most of all, create feelings and images of love. Shall I compare thee to a summers day? Thou are more lovely and more temperate /Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, /And summers lease hath all too short a date / past too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold tinge dimmd /And every fair from fair sometime declines, /By outlook or natures changing course untrimmed /But thy eternal summer shall not fade We see through the words used in this quote, such as summers day, buds of May, and the eye of heaven, Shakespeare succeeds to enhance the theme of love and beauty while Marvells use of words is not typical of the traditional love poem and create more of a morbid feeling.In conclusion, Marvells use of theme, tone, and language, highly criticized the traditional love poetry of his time. In the opening of the poem Marvells use of his carpe diem theme creates an immediate break in the normal love poetry by starting the poem with a proble m time and berth limitation. As the poem continues we sense a feeling and tone of urgency which entwines with the theme of carpe diem. The register of the poem, through hyperbole and metaphor, shows how To His Coy Mistress is predominantly about time rather than lust, love, or seduction.