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Feministic Approach in
Reading the poem “To His Coy
Mistress.”
This
poem is considered to be a
shocking poem of verbal and
non verbal assault made on a
female body as the feminist
approach takes it to be in
terms of the speaker’s
address to the lady, the
focus of/on her body and the
strategies of horrifying
her.
Addressing to a coy or
putatively unwilling woman,
the speaker in the poem
pleads for sex using the
logical argument that since
they have not “would enough
and time” to delay the
pleasure, the couple should
proceed with haste. Female
writers argue that the woman
is not only “coy” and
unwilling to accept the
speaker, but is obviously
quite intelligent; otherwise
he would not bother with
such vaulting metaphysics.
The poem is also most
violent and grotesque
description of the female
body. Following a series of
exotic settings and
references to time past and
present, the speakers offers
the traditional adoration of
the various parts of her
body, effectively dissecting
her identity into discrete
sexual objects, including
her eyes, her forehead, her
breast, “the rest”, and
“every part, culminating in
a wish for her to “show” her
heart. It is also very overt
when the woman body is
compared to “marble vault”.
Similarly, the male strategy
to frighten the female into
sexual compliance in very
obvious. The woman addressed
in goddess like capacious
and she is the one who must
he complained to. The
feminine is portrayed very
capriciously and, is
endeavored to terrify and
clinches the attack with the
image of “tomb” the most
horrifying in the poem. If
she refuses him, “then worms
shall try/That long
preserved virginity”
This is how the text can be
played wing the lens of
feminism. Explore more
claims and provide textual
evidence………
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