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• W166165144 abstract "There is general agreement that Andrew Marvell's his Coy Mistress is a carpe diem, invitation-to-love, seduction poem couched in a syllogistic, or seemingly-syllogistic, argument: if we lived forever, your virginity would be appropriate; but we do not live forever, and therefore we should engage in sexual activity. (1) To this point commentators have assumed that basis on which speaker persuades mistress to yield is physical pleasure of sexual activity. assumption sets his Coy Mistress apart from Marvell's other poetry in at least two ways. First, would be only Marvell poem construed to present a celebration of sexual delight that is only a celebration of sexual delight. Second, would depart from pattern of Marvell's major poems which offer competing discourses on their subjects (e.g., innocence and experience in Nymph complaining for death of her Faun, praise and criticism in An Horatian Ode upon Cromwel's Return from Ireland). But, if primary grounds of persuasion is sexual pleasure, then that syllogism does not work. After all, desire for sexual pleasure with a particular partner is not likely to be eliminated by prospect of spending eternity with that partner. If syllogism works, then primary ground of persuasion is not sexual pleasure. The difficulty commentators have had reconciling poem's imagery, particularly in its third section, with their argument for sexual pleasure is reflected in a plethora of conflicting interpretations of the dramas of mystery and incoherence, (2) Having to treat each image individually, these critics have been unable to produce a coherent organic reading of all poem's elements. I believe primary desire of speaker, his basic ground of persuasion of mistress to sexual activity, is not sexual pleasure, and is plainly revealed in opening lines: Had we but World enough, and Time, / This coyness Lady were no crime (1-2). (3) The speaker desires extension in time and space beyond confines of earthly life span. And I believe means of its achievement is that proposed in any number of earlier poems, including Shakespeare's sonnets and almost every epithalamion: procreation of offspring, That thereby beauties Rose might neuer die. (4) The persuasion of procreation does provide a coherent organic reading of all elements of his Coy Mistress. The impulse toward procreation was very strong in early modern era. Ambrose Pare opens his book Of Generation of Man with an explanation of this impulse in terms of religion. God ... not onely distinguished mankinde, but all other living creatures also, into a double sex, to wit, of male and female; that so they being moved and enticed by allurements of lust, might desire copulation, thence to have procreation. For this bountiful Lord hath appointed as a solace unto every living creature against most certaine and fatall necessity of death: that for as much as each particular living creature cannot continue for ever, yet they may endure by their species or kinde by propagation and succession of creatures, which is by procreation, so long as world endureth. (5) Those who argue for persuasion from pleasure fail to note that, in seventeenth century, sexual pleasure was not viewed as an appropriate end in itself. Lawrence Stone says that it was not until eighteenth century that pleasure principle began to be clearly separated from procreative function. (6) Pare makes relation of means and end absolutely clear: A certaine great pleasure accompanieth function of parts appointed for generation ... that kind may be preserved and kept for ever, by propagation and substitution of other living creatures of same kinde. (7) This biological imperative was reinforced by a social one. According to Jacques Gelis, there is nothing worse than to die leaving no progeny. (8) Not just Marvell's lovers, but almost all his contemporaries desired extension to eternity through posterity. …" @default.
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