Compare the Way in which John Donne and Swift present the women in their poems: What impressions do

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"Compare the Way in which John Donne and Swift present the women in their poems: What impressions do they Create?"

From the titles of both poems, it is easy to make a judgement of both and one would say that they are not to far apart in content. Swift's "A Beautiful young Nymph going to Bed" would lead you to suggest that his poem has a heroic woman who he is then going to ingratiate with praise and respect; this is quite the opposite, Swift's poem is parodying the heroic poem that was fashionable at the time and instead has produced a mock-heroic work. This title sets up expectations for the reader that are false, this all part of Swift's plan to get his point across. Donne's "To his mistress going to bed" makes us think of a slightly less mythical and god-like woman but a poem that is based more on personal experience than on dream-like figures.

The first line of Swift's poem is designed to confuse and deflate the reader's expectations that the title set up, he calls her 'Corinna' this name conjures up images of a gracious, pleasant young woman who lives in the