'Begger women' essay

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The idea of man seeking sexual flavours from a women is central to both William king's 'Beggar Women' and Andrew Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress'. Compare the presentation of this theme in the two poems.

Both the 'Beggar Woman' and the poem 'To His Coy Mistress' were created in the 17th century. By reading the two poems we have found out that society at that time was strict and men and women were not together (like boyfriend and girlfriend) until they were married.

We can tell from the first line of 'The Beggar Woman' ('A gentlemen in hunting rode astray') that it is in the third person. In the story the narrator tells us that the story is about an upper class man wants to sleep with a girl which is lower class.

The beginning of the poem is light hearted/comic toned. The way that the narrator tells the story is upbeat, amusing and regular. The narrator also uses a pun in line 4 when he says the word 'game'. Pun means playing with a double meaning of a word such as 'game'. When he says 'game' it is like he is saying this is like