His Coy Mistress Allusions

Sacrificed the truth, beauty and the right to think, happiness and comfort is just indulgent, it is the discomfort brought by the misery, responsibility and the bonding give us the weight of life. The world is full of people who try hard to gain happiness, and we all have at least one time the idea of living in a perfect world, a world without pain, without misery, without getting old and without cancers. We always ignored the importance and the beauty of uncomfortableness, just as a quote in this book said, “Stability isn’t nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand”. After read this book, I started to be more objective at those bad things I used to hate, to understand the significance of art and to be grateful to this imperfect world we are

“But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”

In Author’s Prayer written by Ilya Kaminsky the speaker talks about the meaning of our lives and what is most important. The speaker is praying, perhaps not to any particular God, or person, but rather to the world, begging for a change. There is a fundamental darkness to the speaker’s words, and while it ends with aspirations of hope, it ultimately sums up the darkest fears, greatest failures and the wildest dreams of the speaker. It is a prayer, but not like any prayer the world has come to know, it is more like a story, a thought about the pain and the pleasure of life.

He uses this in the poem to give it rhythm to engage the reader and

In the first quatrain of Henry Howard’s “Alas, so all Things now do Hold their Peace!”, the speaker begins by setting a serene scene of nighttime. In line three he explains how the air is calm and every creature is undisturbed, even the birds as “their song do cease”. The stars are out and the entire world seems to be asleep. Moving into the second quatrain, the tranquility is further developed when the speaker mentions ocean and waves slowing. However, while everything in the world seems to be peaceful, he is not because love keeps him awake.

Thomas's poem denounces quiet submission to the inevitable from its first line "Do not go gentle into that good night" (1) while Milton presents this acceptance as the only proper way to live. Although Milton begins his poem by questioning God's actions in his life, these questions are resolved through an imagined conversation with the personification of Patience who says "Who best/ Bear his mild yoke, they serve Him best" (10-11) and "They also serve who only stand and wait" (14). Milton's poem contradicts Thomas's by suggesting that to "go gentle into that good night" (1) is not only acceptable but also the proper way for humans to act.

The main character in this poem is an address to a lovelorn man, spoken by a seductive voice from beyond the grave to encourage him to rejoin a dead lover by taking his own life. He is told that he may find her through suicide. Although the poem might appear to display a faith in life after death, the intense desolation of his experience points, rather, to an expression of longing for death and an inability to endure more life in such grief-stricken loneliness. The poem dramatizes the conflict between his life and his lover, does he really want to go to stay with her, or not. A voice inside the man's head is coming from beyond the grave to tempt him. This voice stands for his lost love encouraging him to join her on the other side. He feels betrayed and abandoned, being left alone to face the cruel outside world. Appropriately,“Luke Havergal” reads like a revealing and realistic short story in verse, providing readers with a snapshot portrait of a lonely main

Throughout The Seven Storey Mountain, the operation of Grace, which is the unmerited and freely given love of God, is shown to greatly influence Thomas Merton and bring peace to his ever complicated life. Merton’s life was an example of how it is necessary for someone to embrace and accept religion in order for them to truly be happy. The operations of Actual and Sanctifying Grace in Merton’s life proved to be the solution to the predicaments that he had been having such as his depression and confusion in religious identity. Merton’s life also raises the question of whether or not it is necessary for someone to have God’s Grace in order for them to be happy. The closer Merton was to God, the

Andrew Marvell's elaborate sixteenth century carpe diem poem, 'To His Coy Mistress', not only speaks to his coy mistress, but also to the reader. Marvell's suggests to his coy mistress that time is inevitably rapidly progressing and for this he wishes for her to reciprocate his desires and to initiate a sexual relationship. Marvell simultaneously suggests to the reader that he or she should act upon their desires as well, to hesitate no longer and seize the moment before time, and ultimately life, expires. Marvell makes use of allusion, metaphor, and grand imagery in order to convey a mood of majestic endurance and innovatively explicate the carpe diem motif.

Marvell, Andrew. "To His Coy Mistress." The Hudson Book of Poetry: 150 Poems worth Reading. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002. 17-18.

happens to one of them or if one of them dies. He says he wants them

This expression of doubt and the lack of emotion mitigated by Donne in his poetry can be seen as John Carey’s view on this topic. The different developments which their poetic works underwent throughout both poets career is also another point which must be considered.

Starting with “The Wanderer,” the speaker begins his tale by reminiscing upon his trials and tribulations of which he has suffered a great deal and “longs for relief, the Almighty’s mercy” (118). He has lost his friends and no longer has anyone to confide in, forcing him to be alone with his thoughts: “So I must hold in the thoughts of my heart” (118). In the midst of his grieving, the Wanderer recalls a joyous occasions, such as when “his friend and lord helped him to the feast” (119), only to realize that what once was, is no longer. He finds comfort in his dreams, longing to be back with his “liege-lord again” only to awaken and have reality come shattering down upon him (119). However, he comes to the conclusion that through hardship and suffering, one matures, grows, learns his place in life and how “a good man holds his words back, tells his woes not too soon, baring his inner heart before knowing the best way” (120).

Andrew Marvell’s To His Coy Mistress is a carpe diem poem, one that focuses on ‘seizing the day,’ because the speaker uses mortality along with religious terminology to justify his reasoning for needing to sleep with his mistress. He uses an antediluvian time frame, a time before the biblical flood, to set a frame of reference regarding his extended love. The speaker appeals to his mistress’s sense of devoutness by exploiting the religious connotations of phrases such as “Flood” (Marvell), “conversion of the Jews” (Marvell), “Deserts of vast eternity” (Marvell), and “long preserved virginity” (Marvell) while simultaneously associating them with humanity’s short life. In doing so, the speaker lays the groundwork for his argument, describes why time is of the essence, and expands on the adverse effects of his mistress’s reluctance to submit to entice her into believing that sleeping with him is justified by religion itself.

Some of the recurrent themes and motifs in Hopkins’ poetry include the idea that the world resembles a book written by God, through which he expresses himself in order to provide humans with an opportunity to understand and approach him (Gardner 11). In ‘God’s Grandeur’ Hopkins can be seen to express his concern about the spiritual crisis of the Victorian period. During this time of urbanization and industrialization, Hopkins voiced his distress about human indifference to destruction. This poem is one of the very few which he wrote during the time when he served as a priest.