Thursday, October 11, 2012

"To His Coy Mistress" and "My life had stood - a Loaded Gun"

In "My life had stood - a Loaded Gun"  and "To His Coy Mistress" this may sound funny but I felt both authors were referring to their pets. For example, in "My life had stood - a Loaded Gun" lines 13-16, guarding their master's head is something a pet would do like a dog or a cat. In "To His Coy Mistress" lines 12-16 say "Thine eyes... two hundred to adore each breast" now this could mean several things, for one, it could mean that there are two hundred pairs of eyes on her chest, or it could mean that she literally has two hundred eyes like a spider or something. I've never been good at reading into poetry so let me know what you think of my crazy idea.
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  1. Miss BOctober 11, 2012 at 9:02 AM

    Not crazy at all. While I would not say that the speakers in these poems are talking about or to their pets, their word choice conveys that very sense you got from their poems. Think gender here.

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  2. UnknownOctober 11, 2012 at 9:22 AM

    I'm not quite sure what the gun may have to do with gender, at first I thought that maybe the he was talking to God and that he felt he was the gun. A gun could mean justice or could be used to make others obey the law like an officer would use for it for.

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  3. UnknownOctober 11, 2012 at 11:21 AM

    I'm terrible at reading into poetry too but in , "To His Coy Mistress", I'm convinced he's talking about falling in love with a lady he's having an affair with.

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  4. Miss BOctober 11, 2012 at 1:21 PM

    So if the 'owner', 'master' in this poem is God, then how do you interpret God "identif[ying]"and "carry[ing] [the speaker] away" (Dickinson 3-4)?

    Eyosyas-can you identify a line in which the speaker says he is falling in love?

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