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Introduction: Psychoanalytic Criticism

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Introduction: Study of the Unconscious

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Introduction: The Unconscious

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Freudian Model of Human Psyche

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Heightening of intensity of desire

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To His Coy Mistress – The Argument

A] FlatteryHad we but world enough, and time,This coyness, lady, were no crime.We would sit down and think which wayTo walk, and pass our long love's day;Thou by the Indian Ganges' sideShouldst rubies find; I by the tideOf Humber would complain. I wouldLove you ten years before the Flood;And you should, if you please, refuseTill the conversion of the Jews.My vegetable love should growVaster than empires, and more slow.An hundred years should go to praiseThine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze;Two hundred to adore each breast,But thirty thousand to the rest;An age at least to every part,And the last age should show your heart.For, lady, you deserve this state,Nor would I love at lower rate.

      B] The Ideal Circumstances

But at my back I always hearTime's winged chariot hurrying near;And yonder all before us lieDeserts of vast eternity.Thy beauty shall no more be found,Nor, in thy marble vault, shall soundMy echoing song; then worms shall tryThat long preserv'd virginity,And your quaint honour turn to dust,And into ashes all my lust.The grave's a fine and private place,But none I think do there embrace.

C] The Necessity of Pleasure         Now therefore, while the youthful hue

Sits on thy skin like morning dew,And while thy willing soul transpiresAt every pore with instant fires,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.Let us roll all our strength, and allOur sweetness, up into one ball;And tear our pleasures with rough strifeThorough the iron gates of life.Thus, though we cannot make our sunStand still, yet we will make him run.

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Dominance of Ego & Superego (in Stanzas 1 & 2)

The Ideal CircumstancesHad we but world enough, and time,This coyness, lady, were no crime.We would sit down and think which wayTo walk, and pass our long love's day;Thou by the Indian Ganges' sideShouldst rubies find; I by the tideOf Humber would complain. I wouldLove you ten years before the Flood;And you should, if you please, refuseTill the conversion of the Jews.My vegetable love should growVaster than empires, and more slow.An hundred years should go to praiseThine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze;Two hundred to adore each breast,But thirty thousand to the rest;An age at least to every part,And the last age should show your heart.For, lady, you deserve this state,Nor would I love at lower rate. 8

Dominance of Ego & Superego (in Stanzas 1 & 2)The Ground Reality

But at my back I always hearTime's winged chariot hurrying near;And yonder all before us lieDeserts of vast eternity.Thy beauty shall no more be found,Nor, in thy marble vault, shall soundMy echoing song; then worms shall tryThat long preserv'd virginity,And your quaint honour turn to dust,And into ashes all my lust.The grave's a fine and private place,But none I think do there embrace.

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Triumph of Id in Stanza 3

Now therefore, while the youthful hueSits on thy skin like morning dew,And while thy willing soul transpiresAt every pore with instant fires,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.Let us roll all our strength, and allOur sweetness, up into one ball;And tear our pleasures with rough strifeThorough the iron gates of life.Thus, though we cannot make our sunStand still, yet we will make him run.

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Recommendations

• Future researchers, however, may explore the poem for discovering the unconscious of the poet himself.

• Researcher may also focus on the two processes of dream-symbolisation called displacement and condensation. This would, however, require an in-depth study of Marvell’s personal and professional life history.

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Words Cited

• Barry, Peter. Beginning Theory. Manchester: Manchester U.P. Manchester, 2002.

• Bertens, Hans. Literary Theory: The Basics. London: Routledge, 2001.

• Duyfhuizen, Bernard. Textual Harassment of Marvell's Coy Mistress: The Institutionalization of Masculine Criticism. College English, Vol. 50, No. 4 (Apr., 1988), pp. 411-423. National Council of Teachers of English Stable. 25.12.2008. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/377620>

• Freud, Sigmund. New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis. London: Penguin Books, 1991.

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Works Cited

• Grierson, Herbert J.C.(Ed.). Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of The Seventeenth Century: Donne to Butler. Glasgow: Oxford UP, 1958.

• Harland, Richard. Literary Theory from Palto to Barthes: An Introductory History. Hong Kong: Macmillan Press Ltd, 1999.

• Hartwig, Joan. The Principle of Measure in "To His Coy Mistress". College English, Vol. 25, No. 8 (May, 1964), pp. 572-575. National Council of Teachers of English. 25.12.2008. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/373126>

• Ray, William. Literary Meaning: From Phenomenology to Deconstruction. Oxford: Basil Blackwell Ltd, 1985.

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