LIVED DOMESTICITIES
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
To His Coy Mistress
I'm really amazed on how the author " Andrew Marvell" used detailed and descriptive words on how beautiful the "Lady" is. In Line 15 he says, "two-hundred to adore each breast, but thirty thousand to the rest. An age at least to every part, and the last age should show your heart." (861). This means that it would not matter how beauty changes as a woman gets older. It only matters on how beautiful they are inside. That's how I see it in my perspective.
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This is an excellent observation- if the speaker in Andrew Marvell's poem would spend all this time to worship the mistress, he seems unconcerned with time? Yet, would he actually spend all this time on admiring the mistress? Isn't he mortal? Isn't that what he emphasizes in stanza two and three? Also note that he uses "should" and "would" in the first stanza.
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