In my essay Im going to compare two poems, which are To His Coy Mistress and My Last Duchess.

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To his Coy Mistress vs. My Last Duchess

In my essay I'm going to compare two poems, which are 'To His Coy Mistress' and 'My Last Duchess'. I am going to show their similarities and differences, but also the ways they are written and what makes them so powerful.

For the first, both poems have something to do with women, in the poem: 'To His Coy Mistress' the narrator (the main speaker) is trying to get the women he is speaking to, to have sex with him, unlike in poem: 'My Last Duchess ' where the main speaker is trying to say that his wife was a cheat and didn't really love him. The Duke is an insecure character - "she smiled, no doubt, whene'ver I passed her; but who passed without much the same smile?" This quote shows that the Duke wants her to just smile for him. Because he felt insecure he "gave commands, then all smiles stopped together". This could mean that she stopped loving him, or that he had her killed for her behaviour.

Secondly, when the reader reads these poems, he/she might get a feeling that these poems are not