Metaphors used like 'winged chariot' which means to describe time, death hurrying near. 'Vegetable love' helps to expand the meaning and clarify his feeling and emotions that he has for his mistress. The idea of 'vegetable love' denotes the meaning about the ancient division of souls that they were vegetative, sensitive and rational.
All the poems that I am studying were written in the era of metaphysical poetry (1590 - 1670). The idea of this style was that of exploring ideas through intricate and startling images. The themes of metaphysical poems are usually that of religion, love or wordplay. Metaphysical poems tend to have underlying themes, often written with the use of conceits and metaphorical contexts. Both 'To the Virgin to Make Much of time' and 'To His Coy Mistress' are love poems. They show their feelings for a loved one in different ways, blending their own style, complex images and exceptional language into their writing.
'To His Coy Mistress' can be seen as a slightly more aggressive poem when compared with the more relaxing “To the Virgins to Make Much of Time”. Andrew Marvell wrote the poem to persuade his young love, or 'coy mistress' that they needed to expand and take their relationship to a new level. This can be seen through the structure in which he writes the poem. He has three stanzas, using 'If' 'But' and 'Therefore' in each. This brings across a more argumentative poem in comparison to the conventional love styling of “ To the Virgins”. The 'If' in the first stanza, informs us of what the lovers would do if they had all the time in the world, 'had we but world enough and time'. By saying, 'Thou by the Indian Ganges' side shouldn’t rubies find', the poet creates a vivid image of beauty and exoticism. He cleverly mentions rubies, a relatively rare and beautiful stone, it captures the deep shade of their love, captured within the stone for eternity. Marvell uses Indian images in a more sensual manner, but contrast with the dam to earthly imagery to be sarcastic.
But we don’t have all the time in the world to form a sexual relationship so lets get in done now and we can take the rest of our life easy. Therefore the last section is saying let’s get it done. The last two lines sum up the story by saying “Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.” We cannot stop time but we will make time last pass quickly in lovemaking and in their relationship.
At the beginning the poet uses “you” and “I” if you and I could have all the time we could do what ever we wanted to do and then at the end of the poem he uses “we” and “us” as if they have been together and they are together now.
This is a love poem because the poem “ To the Virgins” wants the women to marry and enjoy their youth so that is why it’s a romantic poem. This is similar to the other poem because the other one is persuading the other to form a relationship together. In the fist paragraph the poet says “Old time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles to-day To-morrow will be dying. Herrick is saying about the passing of time.” Like to day we could be alive and tomorrow we might be dead. The stanza paragraph Herrick personifies the sun. “The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he's a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting.” What Herrick means is the lamp is the sun in heaven and when he gets there he will be dying. The last paragraph finishes it off by saying not be shy marry because we’ve not got all the time in the world and you only live once.
The tone is quite soft because it is a romantic poem and the poet wants the women to get married and have fun so he will not use a hard tone but he does get the message across. Time is personified on the second line by saying time is old like a person. Herrick and Marvell are trying to communicate different point by saying “he have not got all the time in the world to the form a relationship or get marred. Herrick presents “youth” in line 9 and 10 “That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer;” which means it’s better whilst your young and younger people have more passion for it.
The pessimistic to old age and line 12 says be not coy so use your time and time still success.
The technique helps slow down the poem and gives emphasis words. It slows the poem down by add more words and syllables in but you ca still understand the poem.
The poet uses imagery by using words and make them into picture in your mind. Some can make the whole stanza and some only last a line, Herrick uses good imagery throughout the poem. There are a not a lot of similarities in the message. If you use the sun as a metaphor it compares a lot to the sky and the sun in the final stage of the poem. The opening tone set the poem off because it was strong and I wanted to read more because I thought it would be interesting. The reason the poem opens with an imperative is because they wanted people to get into it and make the poem more interesting.
Herrick uses effective images to get the message across to the women in the poem. The poet is saying about the life span of a rosebud and the brevity of a youth as similarities to each other because he personified the rosebud.
A sonnet is a five-line stanza in a love poem. Shelly is satirising about the dictators such as Ozymandias by saying “Nothing beside remains. Round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare the lone and level sands stretch far away.” So he’s criticising him. The poet describes the statue in the opening couple of lines and the righting under the statue describes the statue. The dramatic pause effects the poem because he stops mentioning the traveller and starts mentioning the statue so it is a big effects. The poet uses alliteration in line 4.
It is ironic that tyrant’s “sneer” and “frown” still remain because Ozymandias is a powerful man so it has to respect him. The inscription tells others that Ozymandias is the best strong and power fullest leader that ever lived and telling everyone to look at what he has done and take note. This is inscription ironic because nothing is there now and in his day his was the power fullest man and now his nothing. This is like the era of Sadam Hussain. Shelly makes these words have great impact on the rest of the poem because it makes the whole poem have an importance. This is written in the present tense even thought it was written along time ago. This is also like the statue of Sadam Hussaine the way the pedestal is juxtaposed with the short sentence. “Nothing beside remains” is an effective contrast. The message about of passing of time is being made is that no tyranny can beat time like the statue in the poem.
The effects alliteration has are effective because even though it’s alliteration he makes sense and it fit’s in with the stanza. The ‘lone and level sands’ relates to the desserts and around.
The poem I really like is Ozymandias because it started to get into the poem straight to the point unlike Coy Mistress because I did not get into it and did not enjoy the poem.
The reason I liked Ozymandias it because every one said human power is not be defeated but the poem contrast that like the statue. To the Virgins is a good poem because the poet uses good imagery and I found it easy to understand unlike Coy Mistress.
By Stuart Birkett
