Name:- Vala Jyotsna T.

Roll No:- 38.

Paper no:- 8.

Topic:- “To his coy mistress” in cultural

study.

Paper Name: -Cultural Study.

Email.id :- valajyotsna7@gmail.com

Submitted to :-

Maharaja Krishna kumar sinhji

Bhavnagar Uni.

He was born in 1621.

He was a famous English

Metaphysical poet.

• His work:-

1). The Garden.

2). To His Coy Mistress

INTRODUCTION

He gives two points:-

(1). Culture.

(2). Historical

Fact.

5). Wealth, Happiness.

4). Use of other place

3). Image of rubies

2). Educated person

1). Words of the poem

Same point regarding:-

WHAT HAPPENS IN THE POEM

The speaker of the poem addresses a woman who has been

slow to respond to his Sexual advances.

In the First Stanza he describes how he would love her if

they had an unlimited amount of time.

He could spend centuries admiring each part of her body

and her refusal to comply would not faze him.

CONTI……

In the Second Stanza, he remembers how short human life

is. Once it is over, the opportunity to enjoy each other is

gone because no one embraces in the grave .

In the Last Stanza, the speaker urges the woman to comply

arguing that in loving each other with passion they will

make the most of the brief time they have to live.

HISTOR ICAL FACT OF T HAT T IME

European population was below

poverty line.

Great Plague.

Historical Reality.

ABOUT POEM

In “To his coy mistress” the speaker argues that because time

will soon strip his mistress of her of her youth Vigour and

beauty, she should seize the moment, succumb to his

advances and surrender her virginity.

He suggests especially in the final section of the poem that

to grasp sexual opportunity presents a challenge to mortality.

IMPLIED CULTURE

lady and his implied reader:-

1). But what does he not show?2). As he selects these rich and

multifarious allusions, what does he ignore from his culture?

Thus might appear to be the culture and era the speaker his

his currency, his coin for present bliss.

Worms and marble vaults and ashes are not present, hence not yet real.

dissolution. But wealth and leisure and sexual activity are

In the third stanza:- He alludes to future death and

HISTORICAL FACT

Historical Fact means “Is a fact about the past”.

1664-65 That was when the London populace was face

with old horror one that had revenged Europe as early.

The middle age of 14th century killing millions perhaps 25

million Europe alone.

The Black death in the

Great Plague of Landon.

From July to October it

killed some person total

of 75,000 in the course

of the epidemic.

For example, the curious can get a sense of the lived

experience by reading Daniel Defoe’s journal of the plague

year (1722), an imaginative creation of what it was like.

Marvell’s speaker about the real world.

The speaker and his lady knew it after all.

May be too well.

Maybe that is why that real world is so thoroughly absent

the poem

CONCLUSION

We can find culture v/s historical fact. So literature is a

reflection of our society but this idea is failed.

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