tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2414075573242640505.post7767154603468758784..comments2023-10-23T10:27:11.577-07:00Comments on 2011 A.P. English: Two Andrew Marvell Poems (one optional)Balgleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06298088627497312968noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2414075573242640505.post-11534667073561177322010-10-03T13:40:53.216-07:002010-10-03T13:40:53.216-07:00To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell is basically...To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell is basically a warning to women against the inflated flattery used by men to bed them. I have to agree with Jeanette i had to reread the poem more than once."The Nymph Complaining for<br />the Death of her Fawn" uses I noticed that he uses a lot of couplets in the stanzas. He also shows how passionate he really is.keniahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00651236177712160432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2414075573242640505.post-47463556905472507412010-09-30T13:43:42.848-07:002010-09-30T13:43:42.848-07:00I had to read and hear both poems about 3 times ea...I had to read and hear both poems about 3 times each in order to actually having a better understanding of what the writer was trying to say. The first poem "To His Coy Mistress" is mostly expressing the writer's love towards his special woman. He uses a couple of couplets and similes to express his love more fluent and to help us understand his love. The second one "The Nymph Complaining for<br />the Death of her Fawn" was just so long and confusing that it was not a pleasure to read nor listen to. I noticed that the writer uses a lot of couplets, but doesn't express himself as clearly as he did in the first one.Jeanette B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12777452894885788502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2414075573242640505.post-65845780314690236742010-09-22T08:15:52.216-07:002010-09-22T08:15:52.216-07:00My reading of "To His Coy Mistress" was ...My reading of "To His Coy Mistress" was worse than bad. I'm sorry. Please try to read the poem aloud tonight at home or elsewhere to yourself. Get into the habit of doing so, or if this is to frightening to those around you, hear yourself speaking the words to yourself expressively as you read the poem from print. Okay? Sorry for the poor performance Raymond.Balgleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06298088627497312968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2414075573242640505.post-16583784334541420172010-09-21T22:32:55.995-07:002010-09-21T22:32:55.995-07:00The poem "To His Coy Mistress" is truly ...The poem "To His Coy Mistress" is truly an amazing peice of writting in which I cannot help but to tear to. Reading it right now I am truly in love with this beautiful Poem, sadly I have never heard of its writter before. <br /><br />Reading this poem makes me think of what love can truly accomplish within life. For example, when two people are in love, nothing will stop them from seeing one another. My favorite line that really amazed me was the last line: "Thus, though we cannot make our sunStand still, yet we will make him run." This line is so beautiful and powerful, it really sparks a light within me. I believe the writter wanted to inspire the person this poem is targeted to; to have sexual intercourse with. If a girl wrote this to me I would surley rip her clothes off right then and there and engage in those naughty acts. :)<br /><br />For the second Poem "The Nymph Complaining for<br />the Death of her Fawn" im not really interested in it as much as the first poem. To me this poem has societys view of a man all over it. To explain, society back then pictured the man as a warrior and who fights for his food; I believe that is an ignorant view upon a man. What truly makes a man? Is it his strenght, or his heart? I believe it is his heart and kidness, not his will to survive (That is just the impression I have from reading this). I do enjoy the old Elizabethan slang, it is very beautiful. :)<br /><br /><br />PS: I wou;d enjoy it if you read "To His Coy Mistress" outloud in class!Raymond Camachohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09179902902081963200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2414075573242640505.post-265003223840191982010-09-21T21:43:01.912-07:002010-09-21T21:43:01.912-07:00I had to re-read these like 3 or 4 times each! But...I had to re-read these like 3 or 4 times each! But I must say that i enjoyed the first one more than the second one. The second one is simply too long. It's almost like an epic poem. It's an entire story. The first one, however, is more clear and abstract. It's an invitation, a seduction. In my opinion it expresses lust more than love. Seems to me like he is just trying to get in her pants.I like the language because it gives the poem a sort of bluntness, but at the same time it is not entirely explicit. Nevertheless, I think the structure made it a little harder to read because it's not very fluent. Some of the couplets don't rhyme and that kind of throws me off.yenifer_Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05729516424082811786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2414075573242640505.post-86151824288542581892010-09-21T20:58:45.033-07:002010-09-21T20:58:45.033-07:00the first poem expresses his love in similes and m...the first poem expresses his love in similes and metaphors. I actually had to read both poems a few times to understand it. in the second poem, it was confusing because it seemed like the topic kept changing. I think he was talking about different loves of his.Ivy Huhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16427982886038057098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2414075573242640505.post-53000399146598834792010-09-21T20:28:54.988-07:002010-09-21T20:28:54.988-07:00I found that I needed to listen over and over agai...I found that I needed to listen over and over again to the poems in order to better understand them.<br />In 'To His Coy Mistress,' Andrew Marvell praises his mistress as well as criticizes her for not accepting his advances. Time is a major theme in the poem, as shown through the lines "An hundred years should go to praise/ Thine eyes and on thy forehead gaze;/Two hundred to adore each breast;/But thirty thousand to the rest;" and "Time's wingèd chariot hurrying near." I also found some of the religious references in the poem amusing, as it refers to 'the Flood,' and the 'conversion of the Jews.'<br />The second poem was more difficult for me than the first, but this poem is more of a metaphysical poem, as the first couple of stanzas connect to the theme of man and his relationship to God. Marvell also uses subtle references to connect the poem's theme of nature when he refers to Diana, the Roman goddess associated with hunting, and wildlife.Susie! :Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04698718419676992911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2414075573242640505.post-59686237532214176452010-09-21T19:38:12.588-07:002010-09-21T19:38:12.588-07:00both poems had a strong and significant meaning bu...both poems had a strong and significant meaning but the first one stood out for me.By reading and analyzing the poem i felt the sense of power and persistance, putting the poem into my own word is just saying that no matter how many times you fall you will always pick urself up and no one is going to gin from your weak side.MEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18178539780686915106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2414075573242640505.post-56325451065741392262010-09-21T19:32:30.307-07:002010-09-21T19:32:30.307-07:00Metaphysical poetry is concerned with the whole ex...Metaphysical poetry is concerned with the whole experience of man, but the intelligence, learning and seriousness of the poets means that the poetry is about the profound areas of experience especially - about love, romantic and sensual; about man's relationship with God - the eternal perspective, and, to a less extent, about pleasure, learning and art. Metaphysical poems are lyric poems. They are brief but intense meditations, characterized by striking use of wit, irony and wordplay. Beneath the formal structure (of rhyme, metre and stanza) is the underlying (and often hardly less formal) structure of the poem's argument. Note that there may be two (or more) kinds of argument in a poem. In To His Coy Mistress the explicit argument (Marvell's request that the coy lady yield to his passion) is a stalking horse for the more serious argument about the transitoriness of pleasure. The outward levity conceals (barely) a deep seriousness of intent. You would be able to show how this theme of carpe diem (“seize the day”) is made clear in the third section of the poem if you were writing about it! Right?Balgleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06298088627497312968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2414075573242640505.post-14476379537305548842010-09-21T19:05:44.850-07:002010-09-21T19:05:44.850-07:00The two poems best describe about how Andrew Marve...The two poems best describe about how Andrew Marvell is passionate and how they have deep meanings into them. More than just an average written love poem, Marvell describes in the first poem about a woman he's deeply in love with. What I like is how he is able to compare his love to anything in that poem. What I like about Marvell's second poem is how he can explain about life and how it may not be what everyone would want their life to be.iSerg3Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05956951532146348105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2414075573242640505.post-66071829979014268452010-09-21T18:33:54.484-07:002010-09-21T18:33:54.484-07:00I agree with Brittany's comment on how passion...I agree with Brittany's comment on how passionate Andrew Marvell wrote his poems. They were beautifully written and both had deep meanings to them.<br /><br />Andrew Marvell's first poem describes how much he loves and how passionate his feelings are towards this mistress. He compares his feelings using both physical and nonphysical things. The physical things he would compare his feelings to were how vegetables grow and how vast the empire has become. The nonphysical thing he compared his feelings to was time and how long they would last. <br /><br />Andrew Marvell's second poem talked about life and death. What he did was use a story to cover the deeper meaning of the poem. He left most of his stanzas "open" so he can continue his point. His point discusses how unfair life is and how death can come in an instant. In the first stanza he would ask the question 'Why' and introduce life. The following stanzas he continues on with sadness and death.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07692311223774937968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2414075573242640505.post-44181025436770174582010-09-21T17:12:31.669-07:002010-09-21T17:12:31.669-07:00I like the website that reads you the poem. It hel...I like the website that reads you the poem. It helps me understand the poems better and helps me me get a better sense of the tone/feelings of these poems.Brandon Chanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03362811782349323676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2414075573242640505.post-77843225842353349302010-09-21T17:08:04.353-07:002010-09-21T17:08:04.353-07:00I like the website that reads you the poem. It hel...I like the website that reads you the poem. It helps me understand the poems better and helps me me get a better sense of the tone/feelings of these poems.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2414075573242640505.post-89967362254349867362010-09-21T16:41:00.225-07:002010-09-21T16:41:00.225-07:00Both poems show how passionate Marvell is, and how...Both poems show how passionate Marvell is, and how he feels about woman and his surroundings. I noticed that he uses alot of couplets in the stanzas as well as at the end of the stanzas. I find the second poem a little bit more confusing then the first. But what I get from these poems, is that he has strong feelings about passion and love. He's also very expressive with words, and it's almost like you can feel what he's feeling. I think they made a movie about him I just forgot what it was called.Brittanyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05859125897683073270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2414075573242640505.post-53078520859707238532010-09-21T16:27:01.294-07:002010-09-21T16:27:01.294-07:00Mr.Marvell talks about the woman of this poem with...Mr.Marvell talks about the woman of this poem with fascination and lust. Also there are a couple of couplets and i think it has alternating rhyme.Nyasiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03832245015486169743noreply@blogger.com