A Critical Analysis and Comparison 'Between Come, My Celia' and 'To His Coy Mistress'

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A Critical Analysis and Comparison 'Between Come, My Celia' and 'To His Coy Mistress'

Ben Jonson was born around June 11, 1572, the posthumous son of a clergyman. He was educated at Westminster School by the great classical scholar William Camden and worked in his stepfather's trade, bricklaying. The trade did not please him in the least, and he joined the army, serving in Flanders. He returned to England about 1592 and married Anne Lewis on November 14, 1594.

Andrew Marvell was born in Yorkshire, on March 31st 1621. He travelled abroad writing poems until 1950 when Marvell became the tutor of twelve-year-old Mary Fairfax (later Duchess of Buckingham.) Around this time Marvell wrote 'To His Coy Mistress' and many other famous poems. During his last twenty years of life, Marvell was engaged in political activities, taking part in embassies to Holland and Russia. Marvell's poems were printed in 1681. Marvell died on 16th August 1678 of tertian ague. He was buried in the church of St. Giles-in-the-Fields.

In 'Come, My Celia' we gain an insight into an unequal partnership where love seems unimportant where as in 'To His Coy Mistress' the couple are