comparing S hakespeare's My Mistress' eyes is nothing like the sun to Marvell's To His Coy Mistress

             Poetry according to Frost provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another. It formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning, sound and rhythm. The poet usually write his poem on a certain subject for example a place or a person but somehow the actual theme of the poem or what he's trying to convey sometimes differ from the subject matter which is written.
             One of the poems, which clearly display this difference, is Andrew Marvell's carpe diem poem "To His Coy Mistress". The subject matter of this poetry is lust where the speaker is trying his best to persuade his mistress to have premarital sex with him. The word "coy" here meaning shyness that is flirtatious, a woman's perfect weapon to torment the frustrated speaker. When reading this poem one would be a bit outraged at the speaker's insistence of consummating his relationship without actually thinking of the dire consequences which the mistress may have to face if she capitulate. Although he admitted that his love would grow vaster than Empires, it's just excuse to have his own way with her. In his attempts he mentioned the loss of beauty (Thy Beauty shall no more be found) and even death in a desperate attempt to coax her.
             The Grave's a fine and private place
             Life is for living and loving. After death there will be no opportunities for lovers meet or any other relationship therefore he is urging her to relinquish whatever principles she may have and submit to his wishes.
             However when reading the poem repeatedly we find that instead of insinuating that women are sex objects, what Marvell is actually trying to impart to us or in other words the theme of this poem is the importance of savoring the present moment when we could. Life is followed by death and we can&apo
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