In Andrew Marvell's Coy Mistress the main foundation of the poem is broken down into three separate stanzas: true love, true reality, and true desire. Each underlying a separate principle of the man in the poem. Of these three principles; True desire serves to be the primary factor in terms of attainment to the man in the poem. However, true love and reality serve to be vital installments in attaining desire.
Stanza 1 concentrates on the significance and the beauty of the "Love" in poem. "An hundred years should go to praise...Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze; Two hundred to adore each breast" The incentive of time serves to prove, and justify love to make it feel sincere to the Mistress. The man exerts this to set the foundation of 'Love' and subsequently reach a positive reality in terms of reaching desire. This reality in actuality does not contain love; but an old, desperate man with a desire for a pure women. The reality of 'love' for the Mistress is actually just an allusion. "And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust." The man is alluding in pity that time is against him, when in all truth it is his desire propelling him so low. In the last stanza the man excretes his true 'desire' which would be taking the Mistress' virginity. "Now let us sport us while we may; And now, like am'rous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour, Than languish in his slow-chapp'd power." The three principles that Marvell present come to be symbols for not only men in general, but also the game in which men (and women) play in society for the attainment of desire today, as they would in Marvell's day.
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