Discuss To his coy Mistress as a metaphysical love poem.

Discuss To his coy Mistress as a metaphysical love poem.

To his Coy Mistress is marvell's best known poem and it ranks among the finest of metaphysical poetry.The poem betrays the agility of wit,the brilliant use of conceits and images,that scrupuloys intellectual,construction qnd that fine play of levity and seriousness,jest and earnestness which many crities single out as typical,metaphysical traits characterizing the poems of Donne.

The theme is a commonplace in european poetry the theme of carpediem, gather the rose buds while ye may". But the rhetoric in which the theme is couched,shows the argumentative disposition.The structure is an argumentative syllologism explicity slated'.Had we but world,enough and time,the speaker says this coyness,lady were no crime.."

"But at my back I always hear

Times winged chriot,hurting wear

..Let us sport us while we may".

It we had all the time and space in the world,we could delay consummation.But we do not therefore,the structure is formal,the poet offers the lady a pratical syllogism.If consequence follows.

In the tradition in which poetic sensiblity remains unaffected, by the "dissociatioj of sensiblity.The argumentative syllogism of marvell's To his coy mistress smarks of that complex mechanism of sensiblity which combilnes intellect and felling,reason amd passion.This takes is to the most important nature of the metaphysical sensiblity-the wit that runs through the poem.It is a wit which draws upon a variety of experiences and at times startles as into new awarness.From arithmatical-osculation of the mistress manifold charms like eyes, forehead and breast the poet's wit swings over to the long preserved virginity which awaits being ravished by warns in the grane or again from 'the Indian Ganges Side, the poet's imagination traverses the 'deserts of vast eternity:

Yet the greatest example of that metaphysical sensiblity which devours desparate experience into a new whole occurs in whe way the poet introduces 'Vegetable love' which will 'grow water than empire and more slow'. This is the instance of a scrupulous intellectual construction-a 'conceit that telescopes different areas of human experience into one unity. The word 'vegetable is no vegetable here but an obstruct philosophical term known to the educated generation of marvell's days.The 'vegetable ' grown and orruption.Marvell says then, thqt his love denied the experience of sense,so it possessess only the power of growth.so it will increase 'vaster than empire'. This is a conceit-a telescope conceit,as george williamson would have it.

What is really most striking is the apparent begining of the poem with a rather conventional move; but shortly turns out to the wittest of marvell's poems.The very conceit of 'vegetable love' betrays the curious balance of levity and serousness, burlesquing not only the coyness of the mistress but also the petrarchan outpouring of the passion we call love.

In all these dimensions, marvell's To His Coy Mistress deserves to be among the finest of metaphysical love poetry.