An exploration of the theme of persuasion in love poetry using Andrew Marvells, "To His Coy Mistress", John Donne "The Flea", Christopher Marlowe "The Passionate Shepherd to his love" and Bruce Springsteen's "Thunder Road".

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An exploration of the theme of persuasion in love poetry using Andrew Marvells, "To His Coy Mistress", John Donne "The Flea", Christopher Marlowe "The Passionate Shepherd to his love" and Bruce Springsteen's "Thunder Road".

For many years poets have used poetry as a way to declare their love to their women. The poets in the poems we are studying use persuasive methods, they may even try to shock the women or pamper them into their way of thinking.

In class we have studied four poems, John Donne "The Flea" Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" Christopher Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd To His Love" and Bruce Springsteen's "Thunder Road".

In the first stanza of "To His Coy Mistress Marvell is praising his lady, raising her up on high and adoring her beauty.

"Had we but world enough, and time,

This coyness, Lady, were no crime."

Here he makes clear that he would wait forever and if there was enough time, he would sit down and talk and discuss her shyness. That makes the lady think he would be all loving and care for her if there was time. He just wants her to