 Cavalier meant horsemen prior to being attributed to this group  Royalists  Charles I supported them

 Entertainment rather than instruction  Conversational style  Elaborate conceits – though less obscure  Meditative tone  Classicism – focus on Greek and Roman poetry  Regular poetic form  Heroic couplets – pairs of rhymed iambic pentameter lines  Sarcastic commentary on pursuit of coy beauties

 Ben Johnson and “Friends of Ben”  Sir John Suckling  Robert Herrick  Richard Lovelace  Andrew Marvel (?)

 “To His Coy Mistress”  Syllogism  All men are mortal (major premise)  Aristotle was a man (minor premise)  Therefore, Aristotle was mortal (conclusion)  Those who perjure themselves cannot be trusted (major premise)  This man has perjured himself (minor premise)…  This man cannot be trusted (conclusion)

 Level 1  Who is the speaker of the poem?  To whom is he speaking?  What is his basic argument? Create a syllogism  Level 2  What is the structure of the poem?  What is the tone?  What imagery exists?  Level 3  What is the theme?  Book lists him with the Cavaliers but most consider him a Metaphysical poet. Which is it?

 Keeping the syllogism in mind and how each stanza represents one part (stanza 1 = major premise, stanza 2 = minor premise, stanza 3 = conclusion)  With this in mind, choose a single metaphor or image and argue why that metaphor or image is appropriate to the stanza, based on your understanding of how each stanza builds Marvell’s overall argument. Do this in paragraph form, one per group, take about 15 minutes.  A modern “To His Coy Mistress” 1g 1g

 Find a group of about 4 people, read and analyze the 2 selected poems, complete the chart, prepare for quick discussion.  Homework…carpe diem for others