TWO LOVE POEMS

1.TO HIS COY MISTRESS-ANDREW MARVELL,ENGLAND(1621-1678)

SUMMARY:

               In this dramatic poem,the English poet Andrew Marvell presents the speaker’s physical love and sexual desire(lust) for his beloved.The speaker tries his best to convince his mistress to involve into sexual relationship.However,the beloved feels very shy and makes no response.

             The speaker says that if he had enough time and limitless space he would praise the beauty and sweetness of his beloved for ages.He would adore(praise) her eyes and forehead for a hundred years and her each breast for two hundred years.He would  admire the rest of the organs for thirty thousands years.She would wander by the side of Ganges of India collecting rubies and he would complain by the tides of Humber of England.He would love her ten years before the flood and she would refuse till the conversion of the Jews.

                 But the speaker says that time is limited and life is short.He always hears time’s winged chariot coming near.He tells his love that her beauty will not be fresh forever.When she enters into grave,her beauty,virginity,pride,honour etc. will turn into dust.He says that his desires,lust will be also ashes.According to him,she will not hear the echoes of his song in the grave and there,no one will go to embrace her.

                  Finally,the speaker persuades his beloved to make love while they are at the prime of youth,desires and energy.Thus,according to him,they should surpass time as the bird of prey attacks its victim.They should mix their strength and sweetness and they should enjoy present moment fully.The speaker says that life is brief and death is inevitable.Time is chewing everybody slowly.So,he tries to woo his mistress to surpass time and death by making love or by involving into love game at the present.

2. PIANO-DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE,ENGLAND(1885-1930)      

                This is a nostalgic poem.It is composed by a famous English Poet,D.H.Lawrence.This poem is about the poet’s pain of remembrance and pain of growing up.It conveys a tension between the speaker’s desire to be a man and his desire to return to his childhood.

              

               Softly is the evening,a woman is playing piano and singing to the poet.But this song and music of piano takes the poet to the bygone days.The poet  forgets his present maturity and finds himself as a small child sitting under piano on the lap of his mother who smiles and sings.

                                           

               Though the poet tries to control himself,the music of piano betrays him back.His heart weeps when he remembers those Sunday evenings when as a child he used to sit on the lap of his mother in a cosy parlour listening to her hymns.

                                            

                So,now it is useless for the woman to play piano passionately to woo the poet.The present manhood of the poet is cast down in the flood of remembrance.He is lost in the childhood days and weeps like a child for the past.