The three poems are (in no particular order), "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell, "Remember" by Christina G. Rossetti, and "The Message" by John Donne. All these poets give a different view of love

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COMPARE AND CONTRAST THE ATTITUDES AND STYLES OF THE THREE _                                POEMS YOU HAVE STUDIED

        

Love poetry is timeless, as love itself does not change over the ages. So, this type of poetry is just as relevant now as when it was written. The only differences are social customs. From these three poems, it shows how a person loves another person of a different sex. It shows how he/she expresses his/her love. All three poems were written at different times, and they give different views on love, and on how they love.

The three poems are (in no particular order), “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell, “Remember” by Christina G. Rossetti, and “The Message” by John Donne.  All these poets give a different view of love, such as; “To His Coy Mistress” shows that he has two sides of love through the poem; and in the poem “Remember”; Rossetti shows love as being remembered in a loving way. Through the three poems, they all talk about love.

In this Essay, I will be explaining all three poems and I shall also be comparing and contrasting the three poems’ attitudes and styles on how they show their view of love.  

The first poem I will be explaining is "To His Coy Mistress". It is a very interesting poem written by Andrew Marvell, it is a well-known poem for how he expresses love. We see this poem through the eyes of the voice, by doing this Marvell gives a look into his mind and what he is thinking. This helps to bring the reader into the poem. It allows the reader to get into his mind as the poem goes along. We begin to see the voice develop his words more and more until eventually by the third paragraph he is pretty desperate. In the first paragraph we see the voice begin to make a move. He begins to tell her all these sweet lines about how he could spend eternity with her. For instance, he says on line 11,

"My vegetable love should grow faster than empires, and more slow;...."

In these two lines he is trying to tell her how his love will grow more and more every time he sees her. He will love her until the end of time. A few lines later he continues to talk about his everlasting love. He begins to divide his love up between her body parts. He promises to her that he will dedicate a hundred years to her eyes. Then he tells her that he would dedicate two hundred to each breast. Here you begin to see how his mind begins to shift toward sex. He begins to shift his thoughts from her eyes to her body. He is very nonchalant about it. After the comment about her breasts he says and thirty to the rest.

The voice is only out for one thing, and that is sex. He is trying to be smooth about it, but in the second paragraph we begin to see his patience giving out.

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 In the second paragraph we begin to see the voice's personality shift. He goes from being the person that you could spend eternity with to a person whose time is coming to an end fast. He says that time's chariot is hurrying near. This line sets the standard for the next paragraph. This paragraph is a little faster, and you can see that the voice does not put as much thought into what he is saying. He then proceeds to tell her that they have eternity to be together, but her beauty will not last forever:

“I am not ...

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