Summary:
Provides a detailed and insightful commentary on Andrew Marvell's poem, "To His Coy Mistress." Describes how Marvell masterly uses his writing as a tool for chauvinism and uses the structure of the poem to systemize and sustain his argument.
In his multi-lateral poem, "To His Coy Mistress", Andrew Marvell presents a proclamation of love to the object of his desire whilst simultaneously developing a systematic argument of reasoning. As a metaphysical poem, Marvell masterly uses his writing as a tool for chauvinism; it becomes a display of beauty and vanity but solely exists to be manipulated by a society domineered by testosterone for the fulfillment of male pleasure. The 'carpe diem' philosophy expressed by the speaker gives the poem yet another facet, as the speaker focuses on the concept of time in an attempt to seduce his lover.
Marvell uses the structure of the poem to systemize and sustain his argument. He divides the poem into three stanzas, each stanza introduced with a word used to indicate his centralized argument. He begins the first.....
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