MARVELL’S “TO HIS COY MISTRESS” THE CONFLICT BETWEEN THE ME AND IMAGERY

Abstract

This paper is basically an elaborate examination of Andrew Marvell's acclaimed sonnet "To His Coy Mistress". This paper underlines the unimportance of deciphering an abstract book by detaching it from the memoir of its writer and the conditions of its age. On this premise, the paper contends that the libertine speaker in Marvell's sonnet doesn't communicate the writer's perspectives about the subject of actual love however speaks to the liberal materialistic mentalities of the Seventeenth century in England toward the male/female issues. Marvell's genuine voice shows up in the sonnet looking like the traditionalist strict implications which contradict the indulgent themes of the sonnet confounding subject and symbolism and subverting the significant contention of the sonnet. The paper represents that Marvell wears the cover of gratification trying to attempt his hands in the indulgent subject or the contemporary carpe-diem themes which are at chances with Marvell's otherworldly perspectives. Overall, the paper plans to give a verse by-refrain investigation, trailed by a reference section which delineates some critical expressive issues which in their turn uphold the contention of the paper that a sonnet is

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