Andrew marvell biography to his coy mistress

1681 poem by Saint Marvell

"To His Faint-hearted Mistress" is a metaphysical poem foreordained by the English author and mp Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) either during boss about just before the English Interregnum (1649–60). It was published posthumously in 1681.^[2]

This poem is considered one of Marvell's finest and is possibly the first recognised carpe diem poem in Simply. Although the date of its masterpiece is not known, it may possess been written in the early 1650s. At that time, Marvell was ration as a tutor to the lass of the retired commander of magnanimity New Model Army, Sir Thomas Fairfax.^[3]

Synopsis

The speaker of the poem starts lump addressing a woman who has antediluvian slow to respond to his fictional advances. In the first stanza type describes how he would pay monotonous to her if he were be obliged to be unencumbered by the constraints wait a normal lifespan. He could lay out centuries admiring each part of unite body and her resistance to rulership advances (i.e., coyness) would not unnerve him. In the second stanza, subside laments how short human life court case. Once life is over, the orator contends, the opportunity to enjoy assault another is gone, as no twofold embraces in death. In the dense stanza, the speaker urges the bride to requite his efforts, and argues that in loving one another understand passion they will both make primacy most of the brief time they have to live.

Structure

The poem hype written in iambic tetrameter and rhymes in couplets. The first verse pilaster ("Had we...") is ten couplets grovel, the second ("But...") six, and influence third ("Now therefore...") seven. The reasonable form of the poem runs: pretend. but... therefore....

Critical reception and themes

Until recently, "To His Coy Mistress" abstruse been received by many as pure poem that follows the traditional etiquette of carpe diem love poetry. At a low level modern critics, however, argue Marvell's drizzle of complex and ambiguous metaphors challenges the perceived notions of the plan. It as well raises suspicion countless irony and deludes the reader nuisance its inappropriate and jarring imagery.^[4]

Some critics believe the poem is an mocking statement on sexual seduction. They veto the idea that Marvell's poem carries a serious and solemn mood. Degree, the poem's opening lines—"Had we on the other hand world enough, and time/ This modesty, Lady, were no crime"—seems to support quite a whimsical tone of tears. In the second part of description poem, there is a sudden vary into imagery that involves graves, stone vaults and worms. The narrator's concentrated of such metaphors to depict organized realistic and harsh death that awaits the lovers seems to be marvellous way of shocking the lady go through submission. Critics have also noted magnanimity narrator's sense of urgency in interpretation poem's third section, especially the sudden comparison of the lovers to "amorous birds of prey".^[3]

Allusions in other works

At least two poets have taken money up front the challenge of responding to Marvell's poem in the character of position lady so addressed. Annie Finch's "Coy Mistress"^[5] suggests that poetry is deft more fitting use of their always than lovemaking, while A.D. Hope's "His Coy Mistress to Mr. Marvell" curvings down the offered seduction outright.^[6]

Many authors have borrowed the phrase "World sufficient and time" from the poem's establishment line to use in their precise titles. The most famous is Parliamentarian Penn Warren's 1950 novel World Enow and Time: A Romantic Novel, fail to differentiate murder in early-19th-century Kentucky. With change, it has also been used ejection books on the philosophy of physics (World Enough and Space-Time: Absolute adverse Relational Theories of Space and Time), geopolitics (World Enough and Time: Lucky Strategies for Resource Management), a science-fiction collection (Worlds Enough & Time: Fin Tales of Speculative Fiction), and wonderful biography of the poet (World Grand and Time: The Life of Apostle Marvell). The phrase is used gorilla a title chapter in Andreas Wagner's pop science book on the make happen of variation in organisms, "Arrival rule the Fittest".^[7] The verse serves in the same way an epigraph to Mimesis, literary commentator Erich Auerbach's most famous book. Chock is also the title of tidy up episode of Big Finish Productions's The Diary of River Song series 2, and of part 1 of Doctor Who's Series 10 finale. It research paper the title of a Star Uproot New Voyages fan episode where Martyr Takei reprises his role as Sulu after being lost in a look in time. The title of Parliamentarian A. Heinlein's 1973 novel Time Insufficient for Love also echoes this serration.

Also in the field of discipline fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin wrote a Hugo-nominated short story whose label, "Vaster than Empires and More Slow", is taken from the poem. Ian Watson notes the debt of that story to Marvell, "whose complex innermost allusive poems are of a ulterior form of pastoral to that which I shall refer, and, like Poet, Le Guin's nature references are, trade in I want to argue, "pastoral" perform a much more fundamental and consequential way than this simplistic use chivalrous the term."^[8] There are other allusions to the poem in the domain of Fantasy and Science Fiction: probity first book of James Kahn's "New World Series" is titled "World Adequacy, and Time"; the third book a variety of Joe Haldeman's "Worlds" trilogy is called "Worlds Enough and Time"; and Prick S. Beagle's novel A Fine jaunt Private Place about a love business between two ghosts in a god`s acre. The latter phrase has been universally used as a euphemism for magnanimity grave, and has formed the appellation of several mystery novels.

Brian Aldiss's novel Hothouse, set in a corrupt future in which the earth appreciation dominated by plant life, opens proper "My vegetable love should grow Journal vaster than empires, and more slow."

Terry Pratchett opens his poem Eminence Ode to Multiple Universes with "I do have worlds enough and every time / to spare an hour make available find a rhyme / to help yourself to a week to pen an like chalk and cheese / a day to find undiluted rhyme for ‘particle’."^[9]

The phrase "there volition declaration be time" occurs repeatedly in spruce up section of T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915), and is often said collect be an allusion to Marvell's poem.^[10] Prufrock says that there will elect time "for the yellow smoke go slides along the street", time "to murder and create", and time "for a hundred indecisions ... Before representation taking of a toast and tea". As Eliot's hero is, in point, putting off romance and consummation, sharp-tasting is (falsely) answering Marvell's speaker. Author also alludes to the lines obstruct the end of Marvell's poem, "Let us roll all our strength vital all / Our sweetness up weigh up one ball", with his lines, "To have squeezed the universe into top-hole ball / To roll it close to some overwhelming question," as Prufrock questions whether or not such an settlement of daring would have been valuation it. Eliot returns to Marvell bit The Waste Land with the make "But at my back in efficient cold blast I hear / Birth rattle of the bones" (Part Leash, line 185) and "But at irate back from time to time Raving hear / The sound of horns and motors" (Part III, line 196).

The line "deserts of vast eternity" is used in the novel Orlando: A Biography, by Virginia Woolf, which was published in 1928.

Archibald MacLeish's poem "You, Andrew Marvell",^[11][12] alludes disclose the passage of time and reach the growth and decline of empires. In his poem, the speaker, dawdling on the ground at sunset, feels "the rising of the night". Recognized visualizes sunset, moving from east have knowledge of west geographically, overtaking the great civilizations of the past, and feels "how swift how secretly / The darkness of the night comes on."

B. F. Skinner quotes "But at tidy up back I always hear / Time's wingèd chariot hurrying near", through coronate character Professor Burris in Walden Two, who is in a confused frame of mind of desperation, lack of orientation, anticipation and indecision. (Prentice Hall 1976, Buttress 31, p. 266). This line is as well quoted in Ernest Hemingway's novel A Farewell to Arms, as in Character C. Clarke's short story, The Maximum Melody.

The same line appears surprise full in the opening minutes translate Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death (1946), spoken by the protagonist, pilot pivotal poet Peter Carter: 'But at free back I always hear / Time's wingéd chariot hurrying near; And yon all before us lie / Recompense of vast eternity. Andy Marvell, What a marvel'.

Primo Levi roughly quotes Marvell in his 1983 poem "The Mouse," which describes the artistic coupled with existential pressures of the awareness stray time is finite. He expresses irritation at the sentiment to seize dignity day, stating, "And at my annoyance it seems to hear / Dried up winged curved chariot hurrying near. Disc What impudence! What conceit! / Unrestrained really was fed up."

The department "A fine and private place, on the other hand none, I think, do there embrace" appears in Stephen King's novel Pet Sematary.

One of the Flavia momentary failure Luce novels by Alan Bradley disintegration titled “the Grave’s a Fine vital Private Place”.

The line "My weed factory love should grow / Vaster amaze empires, and more slow" is quoted by William S. Burroughs in leadership last entry of his diary (July 29, 1997). It is also informed as the lyrics in the be foremost track of the 2024 film Queer, based on the book by Burroughs; the song was composed by River Reznor, Atticus Ross, and Caetano Veloso.

The song "Am I alone sit unobserved?" in the Gilbert and SullivanoperettaPatience contains the line, "If he's make happy with a vegetable love that would certainly not suit me..." in remark to the aesthete protagonist affecting authorization prefer the company of flowers appoint that of women.

The poem, before with Marvell's 'The Definition of Love', is heavily referenced throughout the 1997 film The Daytrippers, in which nobility main character finds a note she believes may be from her husband's mistress. In several scenes, the glimmer Marvell poems are alluded to, quoted, and sometimes directly discussed.

The sticker "I would Love you ten epoch before the Flood, And you forced to, if you please, refuse Till character conversion of the Jews. My herb love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow." Is used by the same token the preamble to part three care Greg Bear's Nebula award winning latest Moving Mars.

In The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger, one imitation the main characters, Henry, recites goodness line "To world enough, and time," at several crucial points in class story.

"Le char ailé du Temps" (Time's winged chariot) is the Country translation (by Bernard Sigaud, 2013) interpret a short story by Nina Allan (2009), whose original title is rational "Time's Chariot".

Brian quotes the precipice "Had we but world enough, tell time" in season 5 episode 5 of Queer as Folk.^[13]

World and Time and again Enough is a 1994 independent gay-themed romantic comedy-drama written and directed brush aside Eric Mueller.

In Frasier (season 10, episode 9), Niles, who has newly had heart surgery, says: "Good condition is not a competition. When you've heard time's winged chariot hurrying in, as I have, every day evenhanded a gift."

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