‘To His Coy Mistress’ is a poem written by “Andrew Marvel”. This poem is written in a very persuasive text by a man who is trying to convince his lover to have sex with him. His love is more like lust.
Two out of the three poems are similar to each other in the war that they both use rhyme. The other poem ‘A Woman to Her Lover’ dose not use rhyme. ‘To His Coy Mistress’ uses a rhyming couples rhyme scheme. ‘Porphyrias Lover’ uses an abab rhyme scheme. For example, tonight, spite-awake, lake.
‘To His Coy Mistress’ uses very vivid imagery of the couple having sex. ‘and worms will try your long preserved virginity’. This is an example of the imagery used. The other poem don’t display very strong imagery compared with ‘To His Coy Mistress’.
The poem which uses the most persuasive text is ‘To His Coy Mistress’. ‘Rather at once our time devour’. This is a quote used to try and persuade the mans lover to sleep with him. Some of the persuasive techniques used are ones making the woman think that she doesn’t have much time left before she dies. Another techniques used is the way he makes her feel really special by flattering her. ‘A hundred years should go to praise’. This is a quote from ‘To His Coy Mistress’ which means if the man had one hundred years he would spend it praising her.
In ‘A Woman to Her Lover’ the attitude towards woman is more modern than the other two in the ay that the woman writing it is against all the old stereotypes of woman who have to stay at home all day looking after the house and children while the man goes out to work. She has a lot more modern morals such as the way she doesn’t want to be a slave to her master but wants to have a two way relationship.
‘Porphyrias Lover’ has a different attitude towards woman. In the poem the woman is definitely the less dominant character of the relationship and is a sort of servant to her master. This shows how in this poem there is defiantly an alder fashioned attitude towards woman.
‘To His Coy Mistress’ has a very unique attitude towards woman. The man of the poem seems to see woman as sex objects and not as human beings. The woman thinks that she is loved by him but all he really wants is to have sex with her. He cannot truly love her if he is trying to convince her to do thing against her will.
The type of love displayed in ‘Porphyrias Lover’ is quite controlling and the man is the more dominant character in the relationship. He show real love to Porphyria but is still quite possessive over her. This is quite natural seeing as he is sharing her with another man but what is not natural is the fact that he is willing to kill her so that he dose not have to share her with him. ‘Porphyria worshiped me; surprise made my heart swell’ and it still grew’. This shows that he loved Porphyria by how happy he is when he realized that she real loved him.
In the poem ‘To His Coy Mistress’ the type of love displayed is false but cunning. He makes her feel loved by him but all he really has for her is lust. He tries to persuade her to have sex with him by putting forward persuasive mages and thoughts. I think that the way he doesn’t care what his mistress wants and only cares about what he wants shows that he cannot truly love her.
The type of love that the woman in ‘A Woman to Her Lover’ wants is that of a perfect marriage. She wants her partner to love her and show her respect and is written to set out the ground rules for a happy and successful relationship for her and her lover. The type of love in this poem that the woman is describing is ideal love. This is the man seeing her as an equal and not looking at her as a house or sex slave. ‘A creature that will have no greater joy than to satisfy your clamorous desire’. This is a quote from the poem telling the man that she wants to be more to him tan someone who satisfies his sexual desires.
‘Porphyrias Lover’ displays a very strong and controlling type of love. The man in the poem is sharing Porphyria with her husband. This makes him jealous because he wants her all to himself. This jealousy leads to violence as he kills her to stop another man seeing her. ’Again laughed the blue eyes without a stain’. This is a quote from just after he has killed her that shows that he thinks that what he has done is an act of love and that he thinks that he has done nothing wrong. This type of love is a harsh contrast to the type of love displayed in ‘To His Coy Mistress’ which is still slightly controlling but is more lust than love in the mans relationship with the woman.
The woman in ‘A Woman to Her Lover’ is looking for the ideal relationship. She wants her man to love her as she is and doesn’t want to feel dependant on him.
