Andrew Marvell
The poem "Eyes and Tears", the poem encourages the audience to freely express their sadness with their tears. He believes that crying is a form of refuge from mental mental distress. The poem is written in iambic tetrameter. Honestly, sound often doesn't play a huge part in the delivery of his poetry; however, the rhythym of the poem makes the usage of your tears a much more desirable action to follow. Oftentimes, crying, especially in a time where the masculine figure is expected not to do so, is viewed as a weak, more feminine action that men shouldn't partake of. But the happily rhythmed iambic tetrameter may changed the minds of the masculine artist. Also, a plain folks persuasive method is present here, for if poet of Marvell's stature is advising the audience to cry, then people will more likely be willing to express their feelings through their tears.
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"To Coy His Mistress" is a poem written by Andrew Marvell that, again describes his, or possibly another fictitious man's feelings towards another woman. The poem is divided into three stanzas/paragraphs that organize his thoughts concerning the woman. The first stanza introduces a specific characteristic about the girl that he calls a "crime". Already, his word choice is establishing a negative view amongst the girl's coyness, or shyness. He does so through the usage of diction. Instead of using a much less kinder word such as "problem", the word "crime" infers that it is harming not only their relationship, but also his personal being. Additionally, he is implying that this is deserving of a punishments, as crimes are most likely, never go unpunished. The most clever usage of diction is located in the last stanza. Here, Marvell alludes to the fear of death as a persuasion technique to get the girl to have sex with the man.
Now therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing soul transpires At every pore with instant fires, Now let us sport us while we may, And now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour The following lines describes sexual passion as a "pore with instant fires" to make the intercourse more desirable. He does so to describe how the time is of the essence, how he believes they should have sex before they die. Bermudas is set in the 1600s, where the English settlement has arrived in the Bermudas and they have begun to praise God for allowing them to find refuge away from the implied prejudice that most likely occured in their homelands in England. It is believed that Andrew Marvell was a Puritan, or at least travelled with them, as the time that the poem was written was during the colonization of the Americas. Throughout the poem, Marvell utilizes the presence of tone to his advantage to express the affection that he is showing towards God in a vivid manner. Marvell begins his poem by expressing that "the list'ning winds" or God is worthy enough to be sung to. Marvell then continues to acknowledge the beneficial geography of the land as the blessings sent from God. During this area of the poem, Marvell is able to establish his tone with words lines such as, "He gave us this eternal spring / Which here enamels everything, / And sends the fowls to us in care, / On daily visits through the air." The tone of this line expresses Marvell's belief in God as a father figure in his life, which can be translated in the following lines because of the same simlar diction.
Where the remote Bermudas ride In th’ ocean’s bosom unespy’d, From a small boat, that row’d along, The list’ning winds receiv’d this song. What should we do but sing his praise That led us through the wat’ry maze Unto an isle so long unknown, And yet far kinder than our own? Where he the huge sea-monsters wracks, That lift the deep upon their backs, He lands us on a grassy stage, Safe from the storm’s and prelates’ rage. He gave us this eternal spring Which here enamels everything, And sends the fowls to us in care, On daily visits through the air. He hangs in shades the orange bright, Like golden lamps in a green night; And does in the pomegranates close Jewels more rich than Ormus shows. He makes the figs our mouths to meet And throws the melons at our feet, But apples plants of such a price, No tree could ever bear them twice. With cedars, chosen by his hand, From Lebanon, he stores the land, And makes the hollow seas that roar Proclaim the ambergris on shore. He cast (of which we rather boast) The Gospel’s pearl upon our coast, And in these rocks for us did frame A temple, where to sound his name. Oh let our voice his praise exalt, Till it arrive at heaven’s vault; Which thence (perhaps) rebounding, may Echo beyond the Mexic Bay. Thus sung they in the English boat An holy and a cheerful note, And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept the time. Andrew Marvell's poem, "The Mower's Song", is a poem detailing his current feelings towards a particular women named juliana. In the beginning of his writing, their is an evident transition between positive and negative reactions towards Juliana. Throughout the poem, Marvell compares his relationship to that of a yard keeper, and the lawn in which he trims. In this case, Marvell is the lawn that is being cut (or Juliana's love for Marvell) by the yard keeper, who is Juliana. He begins the poem by describing his initial feelings towards her as "true survey/Of all these meadows fresh and gay (happy)." However, the next stanza signifies a transition, as he was now disappointed in the way that way the Juliana may be ungrateful of his love, writing, "That not one blade of grass you spied, /But had a flower on either side; /When Juliana came, and she, /What I do to the grass, does to my thoughts and me?" Additionally, he ends each stanza in the same way "When Juliana came, and she, /What I do to the grass, does to my thoughts and me?", to imply that whatever Juliana does unto the grass (her love for Marvell) will he affect his inner being as well. The transition is evident through the tone change that goes along with it. After starting his poem with a positive, joyful tone, the second stanza switches towards a melancholy-like feeling to accentuate the sadness that Marvell may be experiencing from Juliana not loving anymore.
The Mower's Song My mind was once the true survey Of all these meadows fresh and gay, And in the greenness of the grass Did see its hopes as in a glass; When Juliana came, and she What I do to the grass, does to my thoughts and me. But these, while I with sorrow pine, Grew more luxuriant still and fine, That not one blade of grass you spy’d But had a flower on either side; When Juliana came, and she What I do to the grass, does to me thoughts and me. Unthankful meadows, could you so A fellowship so true forgo? And in your gaudy May-games meet While I lay trodden under feet? When Juliana came, and she What I do to the grass, does to my thoughts and me. But what you in compassion ought, Shall now by my revenge be wrought; And flow’rs, and grass, and I and all, Will in one common ruin fall. For Juliana comes, and she What I do to the grass, does to my thoughts and me. And thus, ye meadows, which have been Companions of my thoughts more green, Shall now the heraldry become With which I shall adorn my tomb; For Juliana comes, and she What I do to the grass, does to my thoughts and me. |
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