To his Coy Mistress
- Had we but world enough, and Time,
This
coyness Lady were no crime.
Answer: These lines have been
taken from the poem “To his Coy Mistress” by Politician, diplomat, poet and
satirist, Marvell. He had a keen and often biting sense of humor; there are
several fine examples in "To his Coy Mistress.
The speaker
starts off by telling the mistress that if there was enough time and
enough space ("world enough, and time"), then her "coyness"
(see "What’s up with the title" for some definitions) wouldn’t be a
criminal act. This is a roundabout way of calling her a criminal, and makes us
think of jails, courtrooms, and punishments.
The speaker begins by constructing a
thorough and elaborate conceit of the many things he "would" do to
honor the lady properly, if the two lovers indeed had enough time. He posits
impossible stretches of time during which the two lovers indeed had enough
time.
2. My Vegetable love should grow
Vaster than Empires, and more slow.
Answer: These lines have
been taken from the poem “To his Coy Mistress” by Politician, diplomat, poet
and satirist, Marvell. Here marvell wanted to tell "vegetable love" is "organic
love" – love without the pressure of anything but nature, a natural
process resulting in something nourishing – vegetables. Marvell’s
‘vegetable love’ imagery has been interpreted in numerous ways, but nowhere
have I found the truly plausible. What is more obvious than anything else is
that ‘vegetable’ grows ‘up’ excising the layers of ground, towards the sky.
3. Time's winged Charriot hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts
of vast eternity.
Answer:
These lines have been taken from the
poem “To his Coy Mistress” by Politician, diplomat, poet and satirist, Marvell.
Here the
speaker hears something behind him: "Time’s winged chariot," to be
exact. He’s being chased down by Time’s hybrid car! He doesn’t say who’s
driving, but we can assume it’s probably Time.
We saw in the second line that the speaker seems to
have a hallucination. He also tells the mistress, look at all this sand.
The future is just endless sand and we’re all going to die.
4. And now, like am'rous birds of prey
Rather at
once our Time devour
Than
languish in his slow-chapt pow'r.
Answer: These lines have
been taken from the poem “To his Coy Mistress” by Politician, diplomat, poet
and satirist, Marvell. Here the poet want to tell that they should
pretend to be birds of prey, mating! Also, the word "prey" introduces
violence, and therefore uneasiness, into the scene. But, before the games
begin, we should have a little pre-mating dinner. In the second line the poet
tells, honey, try this seared fillet-o-time, on a bed of vegetable love.
And for dessert – time capsules! See, time deserves to be
eaten.
In the
last line of the tree, the poet want to tell that Time exerts its
"slow-chapped power" over the speaker for far too long. According to
the Norton Anthology of English Literature, "slow-chapped power"
means "slowly devouring jaws." In short, he feels like he’s dying in
Time’s mouth, and that time is slowly eating him up. He wants to turn the
tables, and thinks that sex, or so he tells his mistress, is the way to get time
under his control.
- Vegetable
love
Answer:
"vegetable love" is
"organic love" – love without the pressure of anything but nature, a
natural process resulting in something nourishing – vegetables. Marvell’s
‘vegetable love’ imagery has been interpreted in numerous ways, but nowhere
have I found the truly plausible. What is more obvious than anything else is
that ‘vegetable’ grows ‘up’ excising the layers of ground, towards the sky.
2.
Time winged chariot
Answer: A
phrase from the seventeenth-century English poem “To His Coy Mistress,” by
Andrew Marvell.
In the second stanza, the speaker
shifts to images of swiftly passing time to impress upon his love that they in
fact do not have the leisure to love at this slow rate.He says. Now time is
destructive, and the meter moves rapidly. The speaker resorts to images of
decay that are at once whimsical and frightening as he attempts to convince the
beloved of the need to consummate their love in the present.
3.
Seize the day
(moment) or carpe diem.
Answer: "Carpe
diem," as you probably already well know, means "seize the day"
or, less literally, "make the most out of the time we have." The
phrase is often credited to the Roman poet Horace (or Quintus Horatius
Flaccus). It's a pretty common sentiment in literature. For example, Henry
David Thoreau talks in Walden about "want[ing] to live deep and
suck all the marrow out of life."
The speaker wants a
woman to go along with what he wants, which is her now. The
sentiment of "carpe diem," apparently, can be either
thoughtful or superficial.
4.
Thorough the iron gates of life:
Answer:
It makes sense
from the speaker’s perspective. He claims to believe that sex is the way to
another world, a way to break out of the prison of time. The iron gates
could well be the barrier, the threshold, through which the speaker wishes to
emerge. He sets the imperative. If they come together then who knows what will
happen? Common sense and the logic of time will no longer dictate their lives.
5.
his slow chapt power. (slow - poison)
Answer: the
poet want to tell that Time exerts its "slow-chapped power"
over the speaker for far too long. According to the Norton Anthology of English
Literature, "slow-chapped power" means "slowly devouring
jaws." In short, he feels like he’s dying in Time’s mouth, and that time
is slowly eating him up. He wants to turn the tables, and thinks that sex, or
so he tells his mistress, is the way to get time under his control.
6.
Explain /if / but/ so.
Answer: Marvell actually directly provides the
answers to these questions in his poem: it can be divided into "if,"
"then," "but," and "therefore" sections, except
that he has used different words to introduce some of them.
The first line
of the poem, "Had we but world enough and time," is the
"if" section. This could be rephrased as, "If we had all the
time in the world and all the possible opportunity."
He follows this
up with the "then" response: "This coyness, lady, were no
crime." So, Marvell is saying, if we had all the time in the world,
then it wouldn't matter that you, the mistress, are being so coy and
refusing to advance beyond the courtship stage.
For several
lines, Marvell describes what he would do if this were the case.
However, then he brings up the "but" issue: "But at my back I
always hear / Time's winged chariot hurrying near."
Here, then, the
poet is saying that he wishes they did have all the time in the world,but
he's very conscious that they don't and that soon enough, he and his beloved
will both be dead, after which it will be too late for them to consummate their
love.
To summarize,
then, and put all the parts of the equation together as a paraphrase:
If we had all the time in the world, then it wouldn't matter that you
want to take your time about this courtship. But unfortunately I'm very
conscious that we're both mortal and can't be coy forever, therefore we
should make love now, while we still can.
The definition of Love
- My love is of a birth as rare
As ’tis for
object strange and high;
It was begotten
by Despair
Upon
Impossibility.
Answer: These lines have
been taken from the poem “The definition of Love” by Politician, diplomat, poet and satirist, Marvell. Here the
poet want to tell that he begins with the three
dimensional allegorical figures: Despair, Hope and Fate that control love of
the whole world. The poem begins with the highly intellectual conceit. And at
the beginning of this poem the poet says that the love of the poet has a rare
parentage: and its aim is exceptionally strange and sublime. His love, the poet
says, is the offspring of Despair and impossibility.It was so divine a thing as
his love.
Question
- Magnanimous Despair
Answer: The poem, The Definition of Love talks about the
nature of the love, which exists between the poet and his beloved. The poet
regards this love as being perfect and therefore unattainable.
Marvell says
that 'magnanimous despair' was what showed him a love 'divine', whereas 'feeble
hope' couldn't have. Magnanimous Despair is an oximoron, which means that two
opposite things are brought together and here it reveals the nature of love as
Marvell describes it. The love he feel is all the more beautiful because he
cannot have it. Through his despair he can see how precious love really is and
how beautiful, whereas hoping for love would only have kept him at the surface
of the emotion.
2.
Tyrannical power.
Answer: The
poem, The Definition of Love talks about the nature of the love, which exists
between the poet and his beloved. The poet regards this love as being perfect
and therefore unattainable.
A tyranny is a
cruel, harsh, and unfair government in which a person or small group of people
have power over everyone else. The poem called The Definition of Love points
the irony of a condition in which perfect love is begotten by despair, and
defined precisely by the impossibility of its fruition. To consummate such a
love would be to deny or abolish altogether our present state and depose the
tyrannical power of fate itself.
3.
Tinsel wing.
Answer: The
poem, The Definition of Love talks about the nature of the love, which exists
between the poet and his beloved. The poet regards this love as being perfect
and therefore unattainable.
In a sense, our inability to know
the future frees us to act in the present, without being distracted by the '
Tinsel Wing' of 'feeble Hope’. Only high-minded or resolute Despair could
produce in me so noble a feeling as my love. Hope in the case of my love proved
to be weak, like a bird with gaudy but feeble wings. Hope did try to promise
fulfilment to me, but its effort was futile. This love of mine could never have
been fulfilled.
4.
What do parallel line oblique line.
Answer:The
poem, The Definition of Love talks about the nature of the love, which exists
between the poet and his beloved. The poet regards this love as being perfect
and therefore unattainable.
Only oblique lines can meet
each other in all geometrical angles. In the same way, only two illicit or
guilty lovers are able to meet each other.
5.
Why had poets chosen 3 condition for them to be united.
Answer: The poem, The Definition of Love talks about the
nature of the love, which exists between the poet and his beloved. The poet
regards this love as being perfect and therefore unattainable.
His
love can be achieved only if three conditions are fulfilled: first, the
spinning planets must collapse; second, the earth should be torn asunder by
some fresh convulsion; and third, the whole world should be projected or
flattened into a planet.
The Garden
1. Society is all but rude,
To this delicious solitude.
Answer: These lines
have been taken from the poem “The definition of Love” by Politician, diplomat, poet and satirist, Marvell.
Here the speaker tells that society can't compare to being alone
in the great outdoors.
The mention of "solitude"
in line 16 catches our attention. The speaker isn't just trying to escape the
hustle and bustle of city life; he's saying "I want some 'me time' out
here in the country and don't anyone even think of trying to tag along."
It seems that the only way to stay truly removed from society is to have no
company at all.
2. But ’twas beyond a mortal’s share
To wander solitary there:
Two paradises ’twere in one
To live in paradise alone.
Answer:
These lines have been taken from the poem “The
definition of Love” by Politician, diplomat,
poet and satirist, Marvell. The speaker seems resigned to the fact that
his dream of solo Paradise will never actually come true, but that doesn't mean
he's giving up the chase. Lines 63 and 64 are super-famous. They essentially
say that living in Paradise would be great, and living by yourself would be
Paradise. Lines 63 and 64 sound kind of like an aphorism, or proverb? They make
a profound point, but do it in an incredibly concise, clean kind of way. This is
very typical of Marvell's poetry. He picked the style up from classical
authors, but always makes sure to mellow out the terseness with a little
flowery language. That way, the poem sounds succinct and clean without becoming
too harsh.
Easter Wings
1. O let me rise
As larks,
harmoniously,
And sing this day
thy victories:
Answer: These
lines have been taken from the poem “Easter Wings” by George Herbert. The speaker has just asked
God to let him rise harmoniously like a lark and now he formalizes his request
for a bit of music. He wants to be allowed to sing his worship, in particular,
the "victories" of God, to which we say, belt it out, buddy! Since
he's already referenced Easter with Christ rising in lines 6 and 7, "victories"
pretty clearly = Christ's resurrection and triumph over both death and sin.
2. For, if I imp my wing on thine,
Affliction shall advance the flight in me.
Answer: These lines have
been taken from the poem “Easter Wings” by George Herbert.The speaker explains his meaning more clearly
in this line, turning again to his feathered friends.This time, however, he
uses hawks instead of larks and, instead of just rising with God, he asks for
an extra boost: he wants to "imp" his wing to God's. This implies (eh?
eh?) that the speaker is too damaged by sin, too thin and sick, to fly properly
on his own. He needs some of God's feathers to strengthen him.
"Advance" here means "increase." You've got beautiful I's,
Herbert: "if," "I," "imp," "wing,"
"thine." We've also got two groupings of assonant I's: the long I's
of "I," "my," and "thine" and the short I's of
"if," "imp," and "wing." And for more on how all
these A's put the "a" in "alliteration" and
"assonance," head down to "Symbols, Imagery, Wordplay."
The Pulley
- When almost all was out, God made a stay,
Perceiving
that, alone of all his treasure,
Rest
in the bottom lay.
Answer:
These lines have been taken from the
poem “The Pulley” by George Herbert. God endows man with
an abundant life enriched with the gratification of the senses, the pleasures
of the mind, the wonder of beauty, and the compliments of praise. God empties
and pours with open handed profusion but withholds one last blessing that
remains in the cup: peace (“Rest in the bottom lay”). God’s love and wisdom
complement each other. To grant man rest in addition to other blessings
separates God and man and eliminates the communion between the Creator and his
creature.
The way of the world by William congreve
1. All Major Character?
Answer:
Mr. Fainall (Fainall/Fain.)
Mr. Fainall is a married man, but his closest relationship is to his
mistress, Ms. Marwood. He plots to get money out of his wife's mother, Lady Wishfort,
after finding out from his mistress that his wife, Mrs. Fainall, married him
while in a relationship with Mirabell.
Mr. Edward Mirabell (Mirabell/Mir.)
A young man, once a womanizer, is now honestly in love with Mrs. Millamant,
a young, attractive, intelligent woman. He is perhaps the closest to a
protagonist in the play, and drives the plot with his scheme to get Ms.
Millamant's aunt, Lady Wishfort, to approve a marriage between them.
Anthony Witwoud (Withwoud/Wit.)
Anthony Witwoud is a suitor of Ms. Millamant and half-brother to Sir
Wilfull Witwoud. He serves as a supporting, comedic character.
Petulant (Pet.)
Petulant is another suitor of Ms. Millamant, and is often seen with
Witwoud. He is another supporting, comedic character, especially for his
ineptitude with speech and wit.
Sir Wilfull Witwoud (Sir Wil.)
Sir Wilfull is half-brother to Anthony Witwoud and nephew to Lady Wishfort.
He comes to town to prepare to go abroad, but is swept up in the plot because
Lady Wishfort wishes him to marry Ms. Millamant. He is a bumbling man, inept
with the social fashions of the town and with attempts to pursue Ms. Millamant
romantically.
Waitwell (Wait.)
Mirabell's servant. In accordance with Mirabell's directions, he marries
Foible, Lady Wishfort's servant, but then pretends to be a well-bred man named
Sir Rowland to trick Lady Wishfort into a fake engagement.
Lady Wishfort (Lady Wish.)
Lady Wishfort is a bitingly mean, witty, wealthy, old lady. She is the aunt
of Miss Millamant and controls half, 6,000 pounds, of Millamant's inheritance.
She is uncomfortable with her age and looks, and this allows Mirabell's plot
with the fake Sir Rowland to succeed as far as it does.
Mrs. Millament (Miss Millament/Mrs. Mil)
Ms. Millament is the young lady whom Mr. Mirabell and many others love. She
has a large inheritance of 12,000 pounds, but is attempting to secure half of
it which is held by her aunt, Lady Wishfort. However, Lady Wishfort wants Ms.
Millament to marry Sir Wilfull Witwoud.
Mrs. Marwood (Miss Marwood/Mrs. Mar.)
Mrs. Marwood is the mistress of Mr. Fainall, a married man. She is a nosy
woman, bitter because her love for Mirabell is not returned, and this leads her
to reveal his scheme to Fainall and later Lady Wishfort herself after
overhearing it while in a closet.
Mrs. Arabella Fainall (Mrs. Fain.)
Mrs. Fainall had a relationship with Mirabell before marrying Fainall, and
is still friends with him and an aid in his scheme. She is daughter to Lady
Wishfort, so their reputations in the climax are closely tied.
Foible (Foib.)
Foible is servant to Lady Wishfort and is integral to Mirabell's plot,
marrying Waitwell and then introducing the idea of Sir Rowland to Lady
Wishfort.
2. The way of the World as a comedy of manner?
Answer:
The Way of the World is developed as a comedy, written by William Congreve, in keeping with the conventions of the Restoration
comedy of manners. These comedies, following Cromwell's government and the
restoration of a king in England upon the return of Charles II to the throne in
1660. George Farquhar was another Restoration comedy playwright. Restoration
comedy, seeming to be a backlash to Cromwell's rigid religiosity, features
sexual adventures and misadventures; marriages of convenience within strict
constraints of behavior; affairs, jealousies and coy coquettes. Congreve wrote
neither to alter nor condemn but to give an accurate glimpse of the background
villainy underpinning superficially impeccable social deportment.
He uses the comedic dramatic devices of
counterplot, the foil, comic relief, hyperbole and impersonation with disguise.
His settings allow views of men collected together; couples in public places
with private conversation; and a house in which private places allow for hiding
from and spying on the social relationships that are conducted within its
walls. Counterplots repeat the theme of the main drama. The foil stands in
contrast with the hero making the hero's virtues look better in light of the
foil's bad qualities. Comic relief interrupts the tragedy at the heart of good
comedy by reducing the danger or tension to a point of ridicule or hilarity.
Hyperbole works with understatement, the former being exaggeration and the
latter being ironic restraint, to expose the ridiculousness of social
convention and cultural stereotypes. Impersonation is familiar as a standard
Shakespearean device in which one person pretends to be another for the purpose
of manipulating events to reach their own desired ends (e.g., Shakespeare's
Viola, Rosalind, Hero).
3. Roll of Servant?
Answer:
The servants; Waitwell (Mirabell's male servant) and
Foible (Lady Wishfort’s female servant) announce their marriage at the
beginning of the first act. Later in the play, Waitwell becomes a part of the
plot to gain approval for the marriage of Mirabell and Millamant. To do so, he
plays the part of one Lord Rowland in an attempt to compromise Lady Wishfort,
and thus force her hand into agreeing to the young people's marriage. Waitwell
gets arrested for his troubles. Numerous attempts at blackmail and Lady
Wishforts desire to save herself from social disgrace eventually bring the play
to its conclusion , and the young people are allowed to be wed and Mirabell's
inheritance is intact.
6. Contemporary society?
Or What does the Restoration audience's reaction to the
play say about society at that time? What does the play's contemporary success
say about audiences after that time and about the play itself?
Answer: Despite Congreve's
focus in the dedication, prologue, and epilogue on audiences giving The Way
of the World fair criticism, the play was not successful at the time. This
is generally attributed to its bawdiness, with scholars noting that audiences
felt the plot and dialogue gratuitously sexual. However, Congreve might also
point out that audiences are quick to criticize, especially when they feel that
the satire in a play is pointed at them. Because later audiences are able to
feel more distant from the characters and context of the satire, this allows
them to appreciate the humor and intrigue of the play, especially because
society has become less prudish on issues of sexuality. However, the play could
not be as successful as it has become if much of the satire (the focus on
gossip, discussions of same-gender friendships, and the intermingling of
problems of love, money, and reputation) did not continue to ring true in
modern parallel.
The collar
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Methought I heard one calling, Child!
And I replied My Lord.
Answer: These lines have
been taken from the poem “The Collar” by George Herbert.The poem is a
series of passionate questions put to God in which the speaker seems to be
questioning his faith. In the last few lines, the tone changes to that of
acceptance and obedience. The rebellious rant is over, and the speaker responds
to God’s call and submits himself to God’s power. The
final lines reduce the former rebellion to a childish status as the narrator re
enters his dutiful relationship with God.
4. Roll of love and marriage?
Answer: William Congreve is one of the greatest
playwright of restoration period. The way of the world is a world famous comedy
of manners. It deals with the theme of love and marriage. In this play, we find
love affair. We meet true love making and false love making. Unhappiness in
marriage and desire for divorce for the sake of money and property are also
obvious.
we find that wait well is married to foible, Mr. fainal
and Mrs. fainal are leading a conjugal life.Mr.Mirabell is going to marry Mrs.
Millamant. Actually, money and property are based on love and marriage. But
love and marriage are based on property.
The love affair between the hero and heroine is the
central figure in the play.Mr Mirabell loves Mrs millamant with all her
fault.He says that All the fault of Mrs. Millamant have become familiar to him.
Yet he loves her.On the contrary, Mrs. Millamant knows that her husband, Mr.
Mirabell is not perfect.
There is a good relation between them. From the very
beginning , Mr. Mirabell loves Mrs. Millamant and tries to come close to Mrs.
Millamant. As a result their love develops in marriage.
The love affair between Mr.Mirabell and Mrs. Millamant is
one sided.Mrs. Marwood loves Mr.mirabell and tries to win her love. But Mr.
Mirabell does not response . so she becomes his enemy.
Mr. fainal and Mrs. fainal are husband and wife. Their
marriage is very interesting. In ‘the way of the world’, we see that Mrs fainal
is the daughter of lady wishfort. She is at first married to languish.
Unfortunately her husband dies.After the death of her husband, she becomes
Mistress of Mr. Mirabell. So she becomes pregnant by him. Mr. Mirabell
condrives her marriage with Mr.fainal with her money. By tempting with money , Mr.
fainal agrees to marry her.Mrs. fainal also agrees to marry him so that her
child can get its father name. Mr. Mirabell also tempts mr.fainal that after
the death of lady wishfort, he will inherit the money and property of lady
wishfort. Mr. fainal becomes greedy after wealth. He demands the wealth of his
wife and threatens if lady wishfort does not pay , he will divorce his wife.
Mr. Mirabell is the hero of the play. He is young. He
arrange another marriage for his own interest. waitwell is married to foible
who is the servant of lady wishfort.Mr.waitwell is the maid man of Mr.
Mirabell. Actually waitwell does not attract to Foible. He does not marry her
as his own choice but the choice of his master, Mr. Mirabell. He is ordered to
marry her by Mr. Mirabell. He does not feel any attraction to her. He only
wants to meet his sexual hunger.
Thus congreve wants to show that such marriage is unable
to bring happiness too.
In the play , we find that Mr. mirabell and Mrs.
Millamant are engaged in lovemaking.we see that the lady wishfort is an
aristocratic lady of fifty five. she is humiliated and left by her lover, Mr.
Mirabell.so she wants to take revenge upon him and arrange the marry between
Sir rowland and Mrs. Millamant. when it is known to her the real identity of
Sir Rowland, he arrange the marriage between Sir willful witwoud and Millamant.
To sum up, we can say that Congreve has expressed his
philosophy about love and marriage.
5. Condition seene?
2.Therefore the love which us doth bind,
But Fate so enviously debars,
Is the conjunction of the mind,
And opposition of the stars.
Answer: These lines have
been taken from the poem “The definition of Love” by Politician, diplomat, poet and satirist, Marvell. The word
‘conjunction‘ here is so important. The idea of universal love and the natural
essence in human that makes him a creature capable of loving, binds the lovers
together in the love knot but in the way conjunction binds two sentences. Two
things are connected together with an ‘and’ or ‘or’ which denotes both of them
are active separately, and both them are of similar potentiality, potent to be
used according to the demand of circumstance, respectively. Love is this
conjunction that binds two minds together, and fate produces the consciousness
of gap in that conjunction. Fate is compared with the gap between the stars,
that are almost similar in size and light, and same formally, but yet distant
from each other. All of them share the light (all the lovers share the love),
but none can be completely one with the other (as the love expressed in two
individuals cannot make them be absolutely together, because their love is not
the absolute-essential-love: the timeless idea of Love that does not depend
upon the actors).
