To His Coy Mistress---
This genderless narrator can be either man or woman. "Love you ten years before the Flood"(7) speaks to the time of Sodom and Gomorrah in my opinion before the flood that washed away the "evil" misdeeds of humans, this line says to me that the narrator is pursing someone else's loved one and mistress meaning the woman of the house not necessarily your lady on the side.
My Life had stood- a Loaded Gun--
The Master in this case has the gun/person do his bidding and they take full on responsibility of the orders. This seems a bit to me like slavery, where the master would pick out a new slave, take them to their new home and have them do the work.
LIVED DOMESTICITIES
I belive that the narrator in the first poem "To His Coy Mistress" is a man, talking to a woman about her coyness and expresses his love for her and all that he would do for her such as" Love you ten years before the Flood,
ReplyDeleteAnd you should, if you please, refuse
Till the conversion of the Jews" (Marvell 1110).
Good, and by making a reference to the Flood, what poetic device is the poet using?
ReplyDeleteInteresting analysis of relationship in Dickinson's poem. Who is the gun in this poem? Do we know?
Karen- can you identify a line where the speaker says he loves the mistress?