Concetti Chiave
- Andrew Marvell's work stands out in the puritan era by highlighting physical love, contrasting the period's general austerity.
- His poetry is rich in conceits, employing striking metaphors to compare dissimilar ideas, characteristic of metaphysical poetry.
- Marvell's poems often include references to unusual fields like astrology and alchemy, aiming to surprise the reader.
- The poem's structure explores eternal possibilities with a lover, transitions to reflections on death, and concludes with a carpe diem theme.
- The implicit message of Marvell's work emphasizes living passions and love swiftly, encouraging seizing the day.
Marvell, Andrew
Even if the literature of the puritan age was characterized by a general austerity, an increase of introspection and self-criticism, Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) conveys the idea of a physical love and his production is full of conceits (metaphors that make an amazing comparison between two dissimilar ideas). Moreover, metaphysical poetry often contains references to unusual fields, such as astrology or alchemy…and it always wants to surprise the reader!
The first part of Marvell's poem talks about what the protagonist and his mistress could do in an eternal space and time, while the second one is about death, because it makes a change in the body: a corpse becomes putrid and many worms undermine each modesty.
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