What I Carry With Me
What questions do we carry with us as we leave Marvell’s famous poem?
Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” – Part 4
Who is the speaker in this poem? Who the audience? Who the Marvell?
Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” – Part 3
We trace Marvell’s poetry back to its perhaps distressing roots.
Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” – Part 2
What did Marvell know and how did he use it? We look at the sexism in the poem and discover how this provocation is hardly unique in the carpe diem tradition.
Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” – Part 1
What do we do with–how do we read–can we make us of–a classic and famous metaphysical poem which is also misogynistic?
Not My Text! Irony and Ducking Accountability
We consider who is accountable for the text: author, character, or reader, and how writers build a narrative distance in texts to allow irony and meaning to operate (and shirking a bit of accountability).
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