Andrew Marvells poem To His Coy Mistress bases itself on the idea or carpe diem, the idea of seizing the day. This idea is expressed through vivid language and imagery Marvell uses throughout his poem to help the reader, rather than simply reading over the black and white print, become immersed in the poem. Each metaphor or allusion giving an example for the reader to relate to the love and beauty he is describing.
Marvell takes his writing to another level by also incorporating his speed of sentences into what they are describing. An example of this is comparing the lines "My vegetable love should grow, Vaster than empires, and more slow" were each word has a much slower feel to help articulate the complexity and large size of his love to "And your quaint honour turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust." where much shorter and direct words show the heavy passion and emotion. Marvell use of multiple levels of communication help what would normally fly right over the readers head to really speak out and catch attention.
Did some of this get cut off?
ReplyDeleteOh my god, yes it did! I didn't even realize, but if you go over the black space and highlight you can see that its just thats it turned to a black font the rest.
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