With close reference to the two poems which you have studied, show how the poets have approached the theme of romantic love.
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Comparison of 'Our Love Now' and 'One Flesh' with 'To His Coy Mistress' and 'Rapunzstiltskin'
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Compare and Contrast "To His Coy Mistress" and "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love".
Richard Dorman November 03 Compare and Contrast "To His Coy Mistress" and "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" Without any doubt, there are many similarities and differences between these two love poems. Born in 1621, Andrew Marvell wrote "To His Coy Mistress" a cleverly written poem based on the phrase "carpe diem" or "seize the day." It was an attempt to persuade a girl to sleep with him. Christopher Marlowe, was the predecessor of Shakespeare, wrote the poem 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love' which is a romantic poem about a man never wanting to be apart from his woman. He pleads for the woman's love by offering his eternal commitment and a beautiful life. The two poems use very different arguments to try to persuade the woman to do similar things. These two arguments are close to being completely the opposite even though they are trying to achieve the same thing. Marlowe's poem does not have a clear argument but it roughly is, if you agree to come with me then everything will be good from now on. He wants "his love" to come and live with him. The speaker says "come live with me" and "we will all the pleasures". On the other hand Marvell is after only one thing and that is to go to bed with the woman. His argument is that time is running out for the young woman. The poet makes the speaker use a very graphic image about her losing her virginity to
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How does Thomas Wyatt describe his feelings towards the woman in the poem 'They Flee From Me'? (By Sana Kanji).
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Compare and contrast Andrew Marvell's
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The Majority or poetry is written about love, relationships and lust and this is simply because it's such an important factor of life.
The Majority or poetry is written about love, relationships and lust and this is simply because it's such an important factor of life. Attitudes towards love, relationships and lust have changed dramatically over the last few centuries in a way that men aren't always the "controllers" when this would have been the case at the times these poems were written. Love, relationships and lust when featured in a poem can be expressed in very different ways but mostly in these poems there is a man pursuing or expressing his love to a woman, with the exception of Sonnet CXXX where Shakespeare is believed to have directed it towards other poets. The three poems I'm studying 'To His Coy Mistress', 'The Sick Rose' and Sonnet CXXX all have the writer expressing his feeling/experiences. In all of these poems we can look at them from several different angles and may have to read through them a few times and work out several meanings to fully understand them. 'To His Coy Mistress' shows that if a man has his mind set on something, he can be very persistent in pursuing it, especially when it comes to women. This poem shows how men are manipulative when doing this. The coy(shy) mistress is resisting him as they would usually do at the time it was used as a sign of incentive if the woman did this, but the man wouldn't know if this was the case or if she just didn't really like him. Andrew