“To His Coy Mistress” was written in one long stanza which has a total of forty six lines which were split up into three sections.
In the first section the man tries to persuade her to make love to him but the lady is too coy (shy) so he tries several different arguments to try to convince her for example “two hundred to adore each breast but thirty thousand to the rest”.
I would say if this would not flatter the lady then I don’t know what will.
In the second section he tries to scare her because the persuasion did not work for some reason. The man describes how all his lust will turn to ashes and he also talks about her virginity being taken away by worms which I think would not sound nice to any woman.
In the final section he talks about sex and let us rolls our love into a ball of sweetness before time runs out. From my point of view I think the methods of seduction were good and would work on most women.
“Sonnet” was written into one short stanza and a total of fourteen lines; Elizabeth Barrette Browning was married and was selflessly explaining how much she loves her husband and will even more after death. There are some good sentences such as “|I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach”.
The poem “Sonnet” was effective but would appeal to a married person who is madly in love or someone poetic who understands it well.
In “To His Coy Mistress” the man uses interesting sentences for example “But at my back I always hear times winged chariot hurrying near;” and “Thou by the Indian Ganges side shouldst rubies find:” These sentences show me that the person is well educated and this could flatter the lady. He also uses grand style words for example “Marble vault”, “Ganges” and “deserts of vast eternity”. This is because it was written a long time ago in the seventeenth century and the English was like today where people don’t speak proper English and use slang. “Sonnet” has some good words to do with love such as “candle light” and “lost saints” which was much easer to understand because this poem was written in the nineteenth century.
Both poems use metaphors and similes in “To His Coy Mistress” for example “my vegetable love should grow vaster then empires but more slow” and “deserts of vast of vast eternity” and similes such as “NOW, therefore, while the youthful hue sits on thy skin like morning dew”, and then “now let us sport us while we may, and now like amorous birds of pray”. These images make the poem very and effective.
“Sonnet” only has two similes which are as “I love thee freely, as men strive for right”; also “I love thee purely as they turn from praise”.
The poem that I prefer is “To His Coy Mistress” because Andrew Marvell uses methods of seduction in order to sleep with her, for example, he praises her beauty and talks about if there was enough time he would spend it watching her and pay attention to her.
