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Q & A on Andrew Marvell's Poem " To his Coy Mistress "

1) The poem " To his Coy Mistress " Was written in the year of _________.

Ans: 1650.

2) The poem " To his Coy Mistress " Was originally published in the year of __________.

Ans: 1681.

3) What was the Phrase used in this poem? 

Ans: carpe diem. 

4) The Phrase carpe diem was taken  from? 

Ans: Latin. 

5) What is the meaning of the phrase carpe diem? 

Ans: " Seize the day".

6) Whom did already used this phrase carpe diem in his work? 

Ans: Greek poet Horace used this phrase in his ode. 

7) Who is Andrew Marvell? 

Ans: He was an English metaphysical poet, satirist and politician. 

8) What is the concept of the poem" To his Coy Mistress "? 

Ans: An unnamed lover or speaker tries to convince his mistress for love making. 

9) Where did speaker's coy mistress find rubies? 

Ans: The speaker's coy mistress found rubies on Indian Ganges. 

10) Where did the speaker complain about his mistress? 

Ans: Humber river of England. 

11) What does an unnamed lover or speaker complained about his mistress? 

Ans: He wants to spend his youthfulness with his mistress physically but she is modest and couldn't agree for his desire. 

12) Why does the speaker complained about his mistress? 

Ans: Time and youth will not stop for anyone so that the speaker wants to enjoy with his mistress but she refused for his desire so that he complains about her modest behaviour. 

13) How many years is mentioned that the speaker loves his mistress before the flood? 

Ans :He loves her for ten years before the flood. 

14) Where did he took the reference 'flood'? 

Ans: It's a Biblical reference from Noah ark's flood. 

15) What does speaker referred in these lines:

"My vegetable love should grow

Vaster than empires and more slow;"

Ans: His love for mistress would grow slowly like vegetables but it spread over vast area than empires. 

16) What are the different references that he mentioned to show his love for mistress? 

Ans: Vegetable love and flood. 

17) How many years is mentioned to praise mistress's eyes and forehead? 

Ans: Hundred years. 

18) Two hundred years is used to adore ___________.

Ans: Her breasts. 

19) How many years is mentioned to praise rest of her body parts? 

Ans: Thirty thousand years. 

20) How many years is mentioned to adore her heart? 

Ans: An ages. 

21) Which creature will turn mistress's virginity to dust after death? 

Ans: Worms. 

22) What does speaker refers through "Time's winged chariot"?

Ans: Time will flies away quickly and never wait or stop for anyone. 

23) What does the word coy meant? 

Ans: The word Coy means shy. It refers to the modest behaviour of his mistress that she is not ready to sacrifice her virginity for the sake of love. 

24) Which is mentioned as fine and private place in this poem " To his Coy Mistress "? 

Ans: Grave. 

25) What does 'morning dew' refers to _____________.

Ans: Youfulness and beauty of mistress's skin. 

26) What does ' Amorous birds of prey' means? 

Ans: The phrase  ' Amorous birds of prey' means that the speaker compares themselves to birds and encourages his mistress quickly used their time to have pleasure before the time taken away their youth and leads them to death. 

27) What are the figures of speech mainly  used in this poem? 

Ans : Hyperbole, metaphor and imagery. 

28) Mention the rhyme scheme of this poem. 

Ans: AA, BB, CC, DD, EE, ..... 

29) What are the metaphors used in this poem? 

Ans: 

∆ Vegetable love

∆ Instant fires

∆ Deserts of Vast eternity

∆ Time's winged chariot

∆ To walk and pass our long love day. 

30) Mention the literary device used in this poem? 

Ans: Iambic tetrameter. 

POEM LINES:

Had we but world enough and time,

This coyness, lady, were no crime.

We would sit down, and think which way

To walk, and pass our long love’s day.

Thou by the Indian Ganges’ side

Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide

Of Humber would complain. I would

Love you ten years before the flood,

And you should, if you please, refuse

Till the conversion of the Jews.

My vegetable love should grow

Vaster than empires and more slow;

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;

An age at least to every part,

And the last age should show your heart.

For, lady, you deserve this state,

Nor would I love at lower rate.

But at my back I always hear

Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near;

And yonder all before us lie

Deserts of vast eternity.

Thy beauty shall no more be found;

Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound

My echoing song; then worms shall try

That long-preserved virginity,

And your quaint honour turn to dust,

And into ashes all my lust;

The grave’s a fine and private place,

But none, I think, do there embrace.

Now therefore, while the youthful hue

Sits on thy skin like morning dew,

And while thy willing soul transpires

At every pore with instant fires,

Now let us sport us while we may,

And now, like amorous birds of prey,

Rather at once our time devour

Than languish in his slow-chapped power.

Let us roll all our strength and all

Our sweetness up into one ball,

And tear our pleasures with rough strife

Through the iron gates of life:

Thus, though we cannot make our sun

Stand still, yet we will make him run.

                       

                                   _ Andrew Marvell