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>Andrew Marvell (1621 – 1678) was an English metaphysical poet, satirist and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1678. During the Commonwealth period he was a colleague and friend of John Milton.
>Marvell is said to have adhered to the established stylized forms of his contemporary neoclassical tradition. These include the carpe diem lyric tradition which also forms the basis of his famous lyric "To His Coy Mistress". He adopted familiar forms and infused them with his unique conceits, analogies, reflections and preoccupations with larger questions about life and death[28] T.S. Eliot wrote of Marvell's style that "It is more than a technical accomplishment, or the vocabulary and syntax of an epoch; it is, what we have designated tentatively as wit, a tough reasonableness beneath the slight lyric grace". He also identified Marvell and the metaphysical school with the "dissociation of sensibility" that occurred in 17th-century English literature; Eliot described this trend as "something which...happened to the mind of England...it is the difference between the intellectual poet and the reflective poet".[29] Poets increasingly developed a self-conscious relationship to tradition, which took the form of a new emphasis on craftsmanship of expression and an idiosyncratic freedom in allusions to Classical and Biblical sources.
>"To His Coy Mistress", Marvell's most celebrated poem, combines an old poetic conceit (the persuasion of the speaker's lover by means of a carpe diem philosophy) with Marvell's typically vibrant imagery and easy command of rhyming couplets. Other works incorporate topical satire and religious themes.

cool thread

Marvellous

>>20358663
One of my favorites, and the greatest carpe diem poem of all time. The last couplet is a killer.

>>20358663
Sensational, the best one yet! I love these threads

>>20359853
>I love these threads
Yeah. They are great.

can someone explain?

>>20360548
>can someone explain?
Which part?

>>20358663
Great poem, great thread, great anon.

>>20360548
The poet is talking to a girl who doesn't wanna fuck him. So he starts by saying, it would be nice to have eternity in which to take our time and go at the slow pace of seduction you feel entitled to, but the fact is we'll both be dead soon, and dead forever; therefore, let's fuck now

>>20361255
so it's rape apologetics

>>20358663
>till the conversion of the Jews
Kek was that a reference to Luther