"Romantic love, physical love, unrequited love, obsessive love." Compare the ways the poets have written about

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"Romantic love, physical love, unrequited love, obsessive love." Compare the ways the poets have written about the theme of love, bringing out different aspects of it.

In the six poems I have studied, I see a wide range of different types of love mentioned. I will be looking at 3 poems in depth. These are: "Porphyria's Lover", written by Robert Browning, "My Last Duchess", written by the Duke of Ferrara and "To His Coy Mistress", written by Andrew Marvell.

When it comes to romantic love, "To His Coy Mistress" contains some elements of it. "To His Coy Mistress" also includes aspects of physical love. When it comes to unrequited love, "Porphyria's Lover" and "To His Coy Mistress" hold a large scale in them. "My Last Duchess" also includes shades of unrequited love. "Porphyria's Lover" and "My Last Duchess" contain features of obsessive love.

In my essay, I would like to pay particular attention to unrequited love because it shows how the women in the poems are seen as a possession, which the men must rightfully have.

I will also look at aspects of obsessive love. "To