To His Coy Mistress p. 767-69 & A Late Aubade p. 770-71
Although "To His Coy Mistress" and "A Late Aubade" are carpe diem poems, the speakers' ideas of "seizing the day" differ. Briefly contrast the two poems.
In Marvell's poem, he is encouraging his mistress to seize the day by moving forward in their relationship. He urges her to not allow time to take away their passion for each other. In Wibur's poem, he wishes for his lover not to move on with her life and instead be lazy with him. He views a day spent in bed together as a way to seize the day. Any other part of his mistress' life is viewed as holding back their love from its full potential.
In "To His Coy Mistress," the speaker's idea of "seizing the day" is having an active, moving relationship with his mistress. Particularly, the speaker wants to have sex with his mistress before time runs out. The speaker thinks having sex is the best way to make the most of their time. In "A Late Aubade," the speaker has a different view of "seizing the day." Instead of doing active things like planting flowers, he would rather be lazy. Spending time being sluggish with his lover is the best way to "seize the day."
In "To His Coy Mistress," Marvell sees seizing the day as having a fast relationship with his mistress. He lusts after her and want to have sex with her, therefore he wants the relationship to move fastly so he may. He does not want time to be a factor in their feelings. He wants to make the most of every moment. In "A Late Aubade," Wilbur sees seizing the day as being lazy with his love and just taking his time to enjoy his days the way he wants to-which is laying in bed being lazy. Time does not matter to him.
Both poems contain speakers that desire to seize the day by loving their women. However, the path the speakers want to venture to seize the day differ slightly. In "To His Coy Mistress", the speaker urges his mistress to make love with him before it is too late. He believes the best way to advance their relationship is to make love before time runs out. In "A Late Aubade", the speaker begs his lover not to leave bed. He mentions that lying in bed with him and being lazy is a better way to seize the day rather than doing activities that are actually productive.
In "To His Coy Mistress," Marvell is trying his best to convince his mistress to hurry and seize the day before it is too late. He can no longer handle lusting after her because she will not always be who she is now. Proving he is a jerk (no offense)! Contrasting is the poem, "A Late Aubade." In this poem, Wilbur is not trying to convince his lover to hurry up and seize the day but rather lay and relax with him. His view is that nothing is better than being lazy with one another and not doing anything productive.
In Wilbur's poem the speaker is urging his lover to seize the day by relaxing and just enjoying the moment. This is opposite of what the speaker in Marvell's poem wants. He wants his girlfriend to quit taking her time and go ahead and move forward in their relationship, because they don't have forever. Another contrast is that the speaker in Wilbur's poem seems to genuinely care about his girlfriend, but the speaker in the poem by Marvell makes it clear that he is only interested in the beauty of his girlfriend.
"To His Coy Mistress" and "A Late Aubade" are both poems with a consistent theme of 'Carpe Diem', yet in two different aspects of the phrase. The first is a persuasive poem where the speaker is longing for the relationship between himself and his mistress to go to another level. He is looking for action, to 'sieze the day' in a proactive motion. However in "A Late Aubade", the sprawled is looking to 'sieze the day' through relaxation. In the modern day, relaxing moments are few and far between so the speaker wants to take notice and just relax.
In,"To His Coy Mistress", Marvell discusses to his mistress how he wants to be active and flowing so they can "seize the day". As ck said, he is basically wanting to bring her to bed and have sex with her. That is his opinion of seizing the day. On the other hand, Wilbur, in his poem, wants to be lazy and apathetic with his mistress and just enjoy the time they have together. He believes being lazy and not doing anything besides spending time with each other is "seizing the day".
In "To His Coy Mistress" the witted is trying to persuade her to seize the day by furthering their relationship together. However, as we said in class, it seems he only wants her to further their relationships so her could get what he wants, which is sex. He said that once her time of beauty was up he wouldn't like her anymore, that just shows he likes her only for her beauty and nothing else. In "A Late Aubade" he is also encouraging some kind of girl to seize the day and do something with her life. However he is not persuading her to further relationships but he is encouraging her to just do something other than nothing.
"To His Coy Mistress" the idea of time consuming everyone's life is presented. In fact, this can also be known as the seventeenth century belief toward time. Because several people died at an early age, people believed living a life to the fullest and never slowing down was the way to go. However, "A Late Aubade" presents the twentieth century ideology of living life around the factor of time. During this period, it was not all about racing but relaxation and the enjoying time for what it is. This tends to happen because technology started to take over the world. As a result, man became lazy and decided to live life relaxing. All in all, the two different descriptions of "seizing the day" is portrayed
In "To His Coy Mistress," fulfilling one's day is to be merry and have interests with other people. Although in "A Late Aubade," making the most of a person's day is simply just enjoying himself laying in bed, eating and having a good time relaxing. These are two radically differing views of making the most of a person's day but they are different due to the time that they were written in. "A Late Aubade" was written in a more contemporary time which conveys the viewpoint of modern society on carpe diem. "To His Coy Mistress" was written in the 17th century and there was not as much life expectancy then nor the technology of today's time to fulfill a person's interests in a short amount of time. In order to fulfill a person's life back then, he had to make the most of every hour that he had.
These two poems greatly show the contrast in the two time periods they were written in. The first, "To His Coy Mistress," the speaker is trying to convince his mistress to be with him before her time of beauty runs out. While the speaker in "A Late Aubade" considers seizing the day as relaxing and appreciating the peace and rest. He even emphasizes that taking a day to be at rest is completely different than being lazy.
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In Marvell's poem, he is encouraging his mistress to seize the day by moving forward in their relationship. He urges her to not allow time to take away their passion for each other. In Wibur's poem, he wishes for his lover not to move on with her life and instead be lazy with him. He views a day spent in bed together as a way to seize the day. Any other part of his mistress' life is viewed as holding back their love from its full potential.
In "To His Coy Mistress," the speaker's idea of "seizing the day" is having an active, moving relationship with his mistress. Particularly, the speaker wants to have sex with his mistress before time runs out. The speaker thinks having sex is the best way to make the most of their time. In "A Late Aubade," the speaker has a different view of "seizing the day." Instead of doing active things like planting flowers, he would rather be lazy. Spending time being sluggish with his lover is the best way to "seize the day."
In "To His Coy Mistress," Marvell sees seizing the day as having a fast relationship with his mistress. He lusts after her and want to have sex with her, therefore he wants the relationship to move fastly so he may. He does not want time to be a factor in their feelings. He wants to make the most of every moment. In "A Late Aubade," Wilbur sees seizing the day as being lazy with his love and just taking his time to enjoy his days the way he wants to-which is laying in bed being lazy. Time does not matter to him.
Both poems contain speakers that desire to seize the day by loving their women. However, the path the speakers want to venture to seize the day differ slightly. In "To His Coy Mistress", the speaker urges his mistress to make love with him before it is too late. He believes the best way to advance their relationship is to make love before time runs out. In "A Late Aubade", the speaker begs his lover not to leave bed. He mentions that lying in bed with him and being lazy is a better way to seize the day rather than doing activities that are actually productive.
In "To His Coy Mistress," Marvell is trying his best to convince his mistress to hurry and seize the day before it is too late. He can no longer handle lusting after her because she will not always be who she is now. Proving he is a jerk (no offense)! Contrasting is the poem, "A Late Aubade." In this poem, Wilbur is not trying to convince his lover to hurry up and seize the day but rather lay and relax with him. His view is that nothing is better than being lazy with one another and not doing anything productive.
In Wilbur's poem the speaker is urging his lover to seize the day by relaxing and just enjoying the moment. This is opposite of what the speaker in Marvell's poem wants. He wants his girlfriend to quit taking her time and go ahead and move forward in their relationship, because they don't have forever. Another contrast is that the speaker in Wilbur's poem seems to genuinely care about his girlfriend, but the speaker in the poem by Marvell makes it clear that he is only interested in the beauty of his girlfriend.
"To His Coy Mistress" and "A Late Aubade" are both poems with a consistent theme of 'Carpe Diem', yet in two different aspects of the phrase. The first is a persuasive poem where the speaker is longing for the relationship between himself and his mistress to go to another level. He is looking for action, to 'sieze the day' in a proactive motion. However in "A Late Aubade", the sprawled is looking to 'sieze the day' through relaxation. In the modern day, relaxing moments are few and far between so the speaker wants to take notice and just relax.
In,"To His Coy Mistress", Marvell discusses to his mistress how he wants to be active and flowing so they can "seize the day". As ck said, he is basically wanting to bring her to bed and have sex with her. That is his opinion of seizing the day. On the other hand, Wilbur, in his poem, wants to be lazy and apathetic with his mistress and just enjoy the time they have together. He believes being lazy and not doing anything besides spending time with each other is "seizing the day".
In "To His Coy Mistress" the witted is trying to persuade her to seize the day by furthering their relationship together. However, as we said in class, it seems he only wants her to further their relationships so her could get what he wants, which is sex. He said that once her time of beauty was up he wouldn't like her anymore, that just shows he likes her only for her beauty and nothing else. In "A Late Aubade" he is also encouraging some kind of girl to seize the day and do something with her life. However he is not persuading her to further relationships but he is encouraging her to just do something other than nothing.
"To His Coy Mistress" the idea of time consuming everyone's life is presented. In fact, this can also be known as the seventeenth century belief toward time. Because several people died at an early age, people believed living a life to the fullest and never slowing down was the way to go. However, "A Late Aubade" presents the twentieth century ideology of living life around the factor of time. During this period, it was not all about racing but relaxation and the enjoying time for what it is. This tends to happen because technology started to take over the world. As a result, man became lazy and decided to live life relaxing. All in all, the two different descriptions of "seizing the day" is portrayed
In "To His Coy Mistress," fulfilling one's day is to be merry and have interests with other people. Although in "A Late Aubade," making the most of a person's day is simply just enjoying himself laying in bed, eating and having a good time relaxing. These are two radically differing views of making the most of a person's day but they are different due to the time that they were written in. "A Late Aubade" was written in a more contemporary time which conveys the viewpoint of modern society on carpe diem. "To His Coy Mistress" was written in the 17th century and there was not as much life expectancy then nor the technology of today's time to fulfill a person's interests in a short amount of time. In order to fulfill a person's life back then, he had to make the most of every hour that he had.
These two poems greatly show the contrast in the two time periods they were written in. The first, "To His Coy Mistress," the speaker is trying to convince his mistress to be with him before her time of beauty runs out. While the speaker in "A Late Aubade" considers seizing the day as relaxing and appreciating the peace and rest. He even emphasizes that taking a day to be at rest is completely different than being lazy.
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