"to his coy mistress" poem analysis through the sense of cultural studies

Name :- Gohil Devangiba AniruddhsinhRoll No. :- 14Email id :- devangibagohil786@gmail.com M.A . Semester - 2Paper No. :- 8(The Cultural Studies)Topic :- “To His Coy Mistress” Poem Analysis through The Sense of Cultural StudiesSubmitted To :- Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University

To his coy Mistress

To His Coy Mistress is a poem by English poet Andrew Marvell. This poem deals with the theme of love. Poet wants to get love from his shy, and timid beloved.

"To His Coy Mistress" poem Analysis through the sense of Cultural studies

Jules Brody tries to analyzed the poem Through the cultural studies. In the first stanza he shows “its insistent, exaggerated literariness.” In the second stanza Brody sees not only the conventional carpe diem theme from Horace but also echoes from Ovid.Brody posits the “implied reader” as distinct from the fictive lady.

Class Conflict Between upper class and Lower class during the 16th Century

Marvell is a highly educated person Belongs to the Upper class He thinks in terms of precious stones, of

exotic and distant placeFor the upper class people it is a milieu

where eating, drinking, and making merry seem to be an achievable way of life.

We are justified in speculating that his coy lady is like the Implied Reader

Equally well educated Knowledgeable of the conventions Marvell

uses in parody.

What does

Marvell

ignore from his

culture ? In this

poem…

poverty

Disease

Socioeconomic details

Demographics details

During this era at least one quarter of the European population was below the poverty line.

Nor does the speaker think of disease as a daily reality that might face.

In the third stanza he alludes to future death and dissolution.

Although the speaker thrusts disease and death into the future, we know that syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases were just as real a phenomenon in Marvell’s day as in our era.

One might turn to a different disease that was in some ways even more ominous, more wrenching, in its grasp of the mind and body of the general population. Move ahead a few years beyond the probable time of composition of the poem in the early 1650s Move to 1664-65, that was when the London populace was faced with an old horror, one that had ravaged Europe as early as A.D. 542.

It did it again in its most thoroughgoing way in the

middle of the 14th century

Killing millions , perhaps 25 million in Europe alone.

It was ready to strike again. It was, of course, a

recurrence of the Black Death, in the Great Plague of

London.

From July to October, it killed some 68,000 persons,

and a total of 75,000 in the course of the epidemic.

its physical manifestations, its rapid spread, the

quickness of the death.

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