You, Andrew Marvell (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Archibald MacLeish
- First Published: 1930
- Type of Work: Meditation
- Genres: Poetry, Meditation
- Subjects: Poetry or poets, Seventeenth century, Death or dying, Middle East, Persia, Pleasure, Night, Shades or shadows
The Poem
“You, Andrew Marvell” is a short, meditative poem in nine four-line stanzas, with a simple rhyme scheme. The title refers to a seventeenth century poet, one of whose best-known poems is a carpe diem lyric entitled “To His Coy Mistress.” Carpe diem means “seize the day” in Latin, and in a carpe diem poem the poet (or speaker) reminds his audience (usually either a lover or the reader himself) of life’s brevity and the prospect of inevitable, impending death, as he urges his audience to “seize the day” and make the most of what life...
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