Compare The Treatment Of The Themes Of Love And Time In The poems To His Coy Mistress And Sonnet 18.
Compare The Treatment Of The Themes Of Love And Time In The poems To His Coy Mistress And Sonnet 18 When reading the two poems I found that To His Coy Mistress and Sonnet 18 are both very well structured. The authors Andrew Marvell and William Shakespeare show their views very well. The points they showed were love, life and death. The author of 'To His Coy Mistress' Andrew Marvell shows and uses a persuasive argument. A persuasive quote such as 'let us sport us wile we may' means let us do it while we have the opportunity. Shakespeare however is trying to immortalise the beauty of his love and the true amount of love he shows for him. Shakespeare on the other hand wants to 'suck up' to his love. The two poems I have studied both have reference to time and love. Shakespeare writes his poem using romantic love. However, Marvell uses a different kind of approach and uses passionate love as his base. When Shakespeare writes his he describes and praises his lover. This lover is to be found as a young man. Compared to Shakespeare, Marvell's poem is based around his lover. He is creating an image of her but not describing her. Shakespeare is trying to show that his lover is out of anyone's reach, Marvell doesn't get this point across to the reader. In sonnet 18 one part reads, 'thy eternal summer shall not fade'. This shows that his lover, who was a young man is
Comparison of 'Our Love Now' and 'One Flesh' with 'To His Coy Mistress' and 'Rapunzstiltskin'
Comparison of 'Our Love Now' and 'One Flesh' with 'To His Coy Mistress' and 'Rapunzstiltskin' All 4 of these poems are based round male and female relationships, each author portrays different ideas of these relationships through their poems. The first comparison I'll make will be between 'Our Love Now' with 'To His Coy Mistress' and 'Rapunzstiltskin'. Martyn Lowery presents his poem as an argument with his partner. His argument and his partner's responses are placed side by side so one can compare the two arguments. This idea of argument and convincing one's partner to do something is also present in Andrew Marvell's poem in which the narrator is trying to get his partner to sleep with him. However, in Marvell's poem you only get one side of the argument which I don't think is as affective as having both. It does however give us insight on what the character's personality may be like, perhaps he isn't interested in his mistress' response just as long as he manages to persuade her. The use of metaphors in both poems is strong. Both writers refer to love as a living thing. Marvell mentions a 'My vegetable love should grow' and Lowery mentions 'The tree is forever dead'. This indicates that the writers think of love as something which can grow like a living thing but can also die like something living. Both writers use this metaphor differently, Marvell uses his growing
In "Ozymandias" the subject of the passing of time is different to "Coy Mistress"
Compare the ways in which the poems you have studied deal with the passing of time. All the three poems deal with the subject of the passing of time in different ways. In " His Coy Mistress" Marvell uses time to say let us form a sexual relationship together by saying "Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, Lady, were no crime" which means if we had all the time in the world we could do whatever we wanted to do. But we don't have all the time so let us form the relationship now. In "Ozymandias" the subject of the passing of time is different to "Coy Mistress" because the poet is saying no tyranny can beat time. This is symbolised by the statue in the poem. The reason it is different is because it's not saying marry me of have a relationship it is shown by the statue. In " To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time is similar to "Coy Mistress" because the poet is speaking to the women by saying "Then be not coy, but use your time, And while ye may go marry" which means don't be shy use your time and whilst your are young go and marry. "To the Virgin" and "Coy Mistress" are different to "Ozymandias" because Ozymandias is about a time defeating human power and the other two poems are about love or human desire beating time. In "Coy Mistress, the poem has a soft touch. Marvell shows his intelligence by referring to exotic places for instance the Indian Ganges in his poem.
The Similarities and Differences between 'To His Coy Mistress' and 'The Ruined Maid'.
Janeme Lam The Similarities and Differences between 'To His Coy Mistress' and 'The Ruined Maid' 'To His Coy Mistress' is written by Andrew Marvell in the 17th Century. Marvell was one of the so-called metaphysical poets - a term of mild literary abuse coined by Dr. Johnson. 'The Ruined Maid' was written by Thomas Hardy in 1866. It is important to analyse the theme, language, tone, characters and style of both poems in order to compare and contrast them. 'To His Coy Mistress' is a lyric of seduction. It is about a young man who tries to persuade a young girl to have sex with him. It seems that he has made an attempt but fails, because the girl is unwilling to yield her virginity. The poem is an example of a carpe diem poem - 'carpe diem' is Latin for 'seize the day'. The man expresses his sadness at the thought of swiftly passing time and the shortness of life. He wants to persuade the girl to grab the time that they have. The poem splits up into three sections with different moods. The first section contains lots of flatteries. Marvell has already expressed the main point of this poem at the first two lines, 'Had we but world enough and time, this coyness, Lady, were no crime.' He is saying that if there is time, he can wait. He understands the young girl's modesty and she wants to keep her virginity. The poem is lustful as the man keeps on flattering the girl; he says
Beggar Woman and To His Coy Mistress.
Beggar Woman and To His Coy Mistress. The first thing that strikes when you read these 17th Century poems is the theme of pre 19th century gentlemen's attitudes towards sex and personal relationships, where women are the ones who are held responsible for sexual morality. The "Beggar Woman" and "To His Coy Mistress", are both poems which deal with relationships between men and women. When the poems were written, society was very difference; women did not have status or independence, it was a society dominated by males, in all aspects of life. The Beggar Woman is a very good example which defines the different status between men and women at the time. The similarity between the two poems is that they show how experiences of love and relationships for men and women, mirrored the roles each sex played in other areas of life. The man who is featured in this poem is very "high" up in society due to his wealthy background. However, you wouldn't be led to think this as what he is after isn't very "upper class". "For he himself had other game in view", here there is no doubt he certain means for the beggar woman and the author has cleverly played with words here too. The fact the man had originally gone out into the woods hunting with his fellow gentleman, the author decides to play with the words here, and uses the term game to refer to the game of hunting, and game, as if having
'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell, 'Cousin Kate' by Christina Rossetti and 'The Beggar Women' by William King - Consider the social and cultural contexts in which the poems are set.
Explore and compare the ways in which the poets present the relationships between men and women in 'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell, 'Cousin Kate' by Christina Rossetti and 'The Beggar Women' by William King. Consider the social and cultural contexts in which the poems are set. For most pre-twentieth century writers, love and marriage provide ways to talk about relationships between men and women. Marvell, Rossetti and King, however, ignore marriage in favour of sex, and love, in varying degrees, is sometimes a negative force. Men, in all societies and contexts, can be seen to dominate, but how effective that domination is, depends entirely upon the women involved. Andrew Marvell, who wrote 'To His Coy Mistress' during the political unrest of civil war, creates a world in which relationships between the men and women are extremely problematic. Fifty years before, a female monarch, who held the power of life and death over her subjects, challenged the ideas of gender that attempted to describe women as a silent ornament. Consequently, the poem tries to make sense of the ambiguities of male-female relationships, whilst also strengthening emerging motions of romantic love. The title of the poem declares the adoration and sexual desire of its persona for his mistress. "Coy" implies that she is shy and innocent, a passive figure, hunted and owned by his "amorous birds
A detailed analysis of sexual persuasion with a close discussion of the methods used in texts of seduction.
Kate Parkin A detailed analysis of sexual persuasion with a close discussion of the methods used in texts of seduction. With reference to "To His Coy Mistress" Marvell (1646), Act 2 Scene 3 King Richard III, Shakespeare (1594); and The Personal Adverts in "The Sunday Times" Newspaper (2003). The dictionary defines seduction as, "the act of seducing, to entice, to allure or to induce to have sexual intercourse". Many written modes have been used to suggest this, such as songs and poems, although paralinguistic features such as tone of voice and overall body language must be considered an asset in this act. I will be studying poetry, speeches and personal adverts, to explore high quality and poor techniques in the act of seduction. The first text under consideration is Marvell's paradoxical and ironic Metaphysical poem called "To His Coy mistress" written circa 1646. Marvell was a puritan, but although the poem does give testimony to this it also endorses a view of sex that in his time would have been considered immoral; that sex is not something we should take seriously and sex before marriage is something to be celebrated. So it might be suggested that Marvell takes on the persona of a dashing cavalier poet and wooer. The poem starts abruptly in mid conversation. This creates an immediate colloquial dramatic monologue. The striking opening is reinforced by the elliptical
Hearts and Partners: To His Coy Mistress - Andrew Marvell wrote this poem in the 17th century, a period when the English Civil War took place.
Hearts and Partners: To His Coy Mistress Andrew Marvell wrote this poem in the 17th century, a period when the English Civil War took place. He was a very skilled politician and therefore was good at expressing his ideas and outlooks on issues. In "To His Coy Mistress", Marvell expresses his attitude towards love and on women "preserving their virginity". Marvell writes in a very metaphysical style i.e. he writes with the whole of his soul and mind. This poem is about trying to persuade women who act coyly (they temporise/play games, to delay having sex), that it is a waste of time and they should have sex now, while they are still young and beautiful, instead of pointlessly preserving their virginity until death - ""Now let us sport us while we may;". When the poem begins, Marvell is very mocking of love and time. He is very humorous and uses sexual references - "My vegetable love should grow". The message he conveys to the reader in this first section of the poem is that he would love and accept his mistress' coyness... if they had thousands of years (he is writing in conditional clause). Marvell is mocking his mistress' coyness, suggesting that he would need hundreds of years play along with it and to love her to his full - "Two hundred <years> to adore each breast". He is being strongly sarcastic and delivers the message that it would be impossible to play along
The two poems that I have chosen to compare are, 'To His Coy Mistress' and 'Our Love Now'.
Compare Two Poems The two poems that I have chosen to compare are, 'To His Coy Mistress' and 'Our Love Now'. 'To His Coy Mistress' was written in the seventeenth century by Andrew Marvell and 'Our Love Now' was written in the twentieth century by Martyn Lowery. 'To His Coy Mistress' is a narrative about a man trying to convince a woman to make love with him, the poem uses rhyming couplets and has a regular rhythm. He does this by splitting the poem into three sections. In lines 1-20, he describes to her how he would court her if he had all the time in the world. He compares her to the river Ganges in India and himself to the river Humber in northwest England. He says that he would love her before the great flood and until the Jews convert. He tells her how long he would spend adoring each body part and that she would deserve all this attention. HE uses hyperbole to exaggerate his love. In lines 21-33 the tone of the poem changes with the word 'But'. He goes on to tell her that unfortunately they do not have all the time in the world and that life is very unpredictable and they could die at any time. He tries to scare her by conjuring up images of death by talking about her grave, "The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think do there embrace". He uses the image of a 'winged chariot' to represent time, this is designed to scare her into thinking that time is
Persuasion methods used in "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love" and "To His Coy Mistress"
Persuasion methods used in "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love" and "To His Coy Mistress" To persuade can be defined as "to induce to undertake a course of action or embrace a point of view by means of argument, reasoning, or entreaty". In this assignment, I am going to compare the ways in which Christopher Marlowe and Andrew Marvel persuade the woman in "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love" and "To His Coy Mistress" to be their lovers. The poem "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love" is a pastoral poem. It is a class of literature that presents the society of shepherds as free from the complexity and corruption of city life. Many of the idylls written in its name are far remote from the realities of any life, rustic or urban. The climax of poetic writing in this pastoral tradition provided a unique blend of freshness. Marlowe's poem, "The Passionate Shepherd to his Love", presents an overly optimistic view of love. He personifies the shepherd's love to both nature's beauty and bounty. From the title of the poem, "Love" suggests that the poet has a good feeling towards the woman. "Come live with me and be my Love," The quote shows that Christopher Marlowe is a light-hearted, unpretentious and also a direct person who asks earnestly for what he wants. The poetry starts out with a direct invitation. This shows his purpose clearly, which is asking the woman he admires to be
