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اشترك في: الأحد إبريل 15, 2007 4:36 pm
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[english]في عندي هدول الحكيات .. ان شاء الله بيعجبوكي..........
[edit] Synopsis
[verification needed] The argument of the poem is straightforward. The speaker of the poem is arguing with his mistress and attempting to persuade her to have sex with him. He begins with a metaphysical conceit stating that, if he had eternity and wealth, he would spend lavish amounts of time courting her and praising her. However, he says that time is forever chasing the lovers. Were the lovers not to consummate their love, they would only grow old and die, and then instead of being penetrated by her lover (and hence losing her virginity), she would instead be penetrated and devoured by worms in a lonely tomb where there is no love. Therefore, the speaker says, the lovers should combine all of their strength into a single act of violent lovemaking, and then, even if they could not escape time, they could at least make the most of the time they had. The poem, which encompasses the male desire for sex, uses several motifs and imagery to build a very emotional persuasion.
The poetry is notable for its playful, explicit treatment of sex, its total control of tone and pacing, as well as its conciseness and precision in wording. Marvell was himself a supporter of Puritanism, and a friend of John Milton, and yet this poem may owe its form and content to the courtier poetry of the late Jacobean period. Literary historians will often place this poem thematically with the Metaphysicals (John Donne, George Herbert, Richard Lovelace and others), rather than with the Puritan poets. Certainly, the poem itself is a lyric, an argument poem, and full of conceits (radical metaphors that hinge on paradox). At the same time, the poem shows as well that Puritanism and romantic love were not antonyms. Marvell's "Damon the Mower" poems, probably written later, are also concerned with romantic love, though in a more pastoral form. Since the poem was not published by the author, dating its composition is difficult, and locating it precisely is speculative.
Throughout, Marvell alludes both overtly and also obscurely to obscene activities; an example of an obscure usage that often passes unremarked is the pun on the word "quaint"[1], which has an archaic sense in which it vulgarly means "cunt" or "vagina"[2]; similarly, one possible explanation of the particularly striking phrase "vegetable love" lies in the observation that a vegetable comes from the vegetative part of a plant, as opposed to a fruit, which comes from the reproductive part. Another explanation is that Marvell is alluding to the Latin vegere ("to be alive"), which is cognate with both vegetable and vigor.
"To His Coy Mistress" is also alluded to in Marvell's later poem, "The Garden".
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