I feel like the poems were opposites.
In "To His Coy Mistress" Marvell was saying women are special; "rubies." He was saying how women need to be given everything they wanted and basically should be treated like a Goddess. I was a little confused when he wrote, "That long preserved virginity." Was he saying something metaphorically or he actually meant a woman's virginity?
In "My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun" Dickinson doesn't state what "The Owner" is. But a man could certainly be who she is talking about. How men are the better sex and how she was nothing without her "Master." Kind of stating that women are nothing without men.
Read the lines in Marvell's poem where the speaker mentions virginity- how dos the context in which that word is used provide some insight into what the speaker is saying?
ReplyDeleteYes, the Owner is not identifies, but maybe we should ask who the speaker is in this poem? Think about the last lines of the poem which talk about the power to kill and power to die. Who has the power to kill and who has to power to die? How do these lines relate to your point about "men being the better sex"?