In the following poems: John Donnes The Flea, Andrew Marvells To His Coy Mistress and Shakespeares Sonnet 130, love is expressed in a variety of ways, and it forms and serves many purpo

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'Romantic love, physical love, unrequited love, obsessive love...' Compare the ways poets have written about love using three or more poems.

The male species is very creative when in pursuit of the opposite sex. For centuries love poems have been tools, employed to seduce and convince the objects of their desire to fall head over heels in love with them. In this essay I will compare and contrast the types of love shown in three poems by three prominent 17th century poets and discuss how each poet also exploits this emotion to win over the favours of the lady they are in pursuit of.

In the following poems: John Donne's 'The Flea', Andrew Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress' and Shakespeare's 'Sonnet 130', love is expressed in a variety of ways, and it forms and serves many purposes, from direct expressions of love, sex or lust, to devotion of the beloved. All three poems feature unorthodox ways of winning a lover. 'Sonnet 130' at first sounds like an elaborate joke but as one gets to the end, is in fact quite a touching poem about love. 'To His Coy Mistress' shares a similar poetic tradition with