Compare the poet's treatment of 'seduction' in 'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell and 'The Passionate Shepherd To His Love' by Christopher Marlowe
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To his Coy Mistress and The Flea - Andrew Marvell and John Donne were both metaphysical poets who did not write for money, but for pleasure.
To his Coy Mistress and The Flea Andrew Marvell and John Donne were both metaphysical poets who did not write for money, but for pleasure. Also both poets are writing about a male speaker who is pressurising their mistress to succumb to their sexual desire. In these poems we also can find some humorous lines, which were intended. "Had we but enough, and time, This Coyness, Lady, were no crime," The speaker indicates in the first two lines to his mistress that if they had all the time in the world she could wait long as she wanted, but he is saying they don't have that much time. "Thou by the Ganges' side" In the first stanza of this poem the speaker is exaggerating his love for his sweetheart. He explains that his love spans over time and various lands. He also makes the situation they are in seem so unimportant. "Till the conversions of the Jews" Out of both poems only Marvell uses biblical references to lure his lady into sexual relations. This is quite amusing because the Bible shows sex out of marriage as immoral and he is using it to constitute their love. "My vegetable love should grow" This line is a double on entendre. It firstly means he wants his love to grow, but also wants to be sexually aroused. Continuously in the first stanza he is showing how much adoration he has for her but throughout there is suggested phallic jokes. Also there are jokes implied
"To His Coy Mistress
Compare and Contrast "To His Coy Mistress" By Andrew Marvell With "To His Mistress Going To Bed" By John Donne. "To His Coy Mistress" and " To His Mistress Going to bed" are two poems that feature "carpe diem"; they are also written by two of the most well known metaphysical poets. Andrew Marvell, the author of "To His Coy Mistress" and John Donne, the writer of "To His Mistress Going To Bed". Both poems were written through the 16th and 17th Century, where love and sex were describe as two different things. 16th and 17th century attitudes to love and relationship were much stricter than in the 21st Century, as wealthy men who wished to court a woman, would need to use the convention of writing a letter or a poem to try and win her over. This is precisely what these poems are about. Each man is trying to bed women, using their poetry. Their poems are more about sex, rather than love or romance. Using their metaphysical ways, they used their sexual images and witty conceits, to try and seduce the woman in question. In the 21st Century, it is not recommended for a man to take such action in doing so. Also in the 16th and 17th Century, woman was expected to be virgins until a chosen time. It was also unheard of for woman to have children out of wedlock, and if it did occur, then the woman would be seen as an outcast. Although in the 21st Century, it is more common if a
Which of 'The Sun Rising' by John Donne and 'To His Coy Mistress' by Andrew Marvell do you believe to be the most successful poem?
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A Comparison Between A Coy Mistress and To The Virgins
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The poem 'To his coy mistress' was written in the seventeenth century by Andrew Marvell.
To his coy mistress The poem 'To his coy mistress' was written in the seventeenth century by Andrew Marvell. It is a metaphysical poem, which means it's lyric, contains many striking images, is very intense and uses strong metaphors. It is concerned with a young man who is trying to persuade a young woman to have sex with him by charming and rushing her into it because he only has one thing on his mind. In the poem he uses three different arguments, flattery, fear and passion to persuade her to his point of view. In the first section Andrew Marvell uses flattery, he does this by telling her that if he had all the time in the world he would use it by telling her how beautiful she is and stare into her eyes but he doesn't have this time and he knows this so he's using his charm and persuasion to get her to sleep with him, a quote from this first section to support this is, 'An hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze Two hundred to adore each breast But thirty thousand to the rest' He also tells her how beautiful she looks by comparing her to exotic, mysterious and different places in the world, he would have used this because countries such as India have only just been discovered at this time and they would have been thought of as new exciting, different, attractive places 'Thou by Indian Ganges' side Shouldst rubies find' And
Comparing Ideas and Images in Four Metaphysical Love Poems
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The two poems I have chosen for my English coursework are 'A Woman to Her Lover.' and 'To His Coy Mistress.'
Saturday 16th August 2003 Compare And Contrast Two Poems From The GCSE ENGLISH POETRY COURSEWORK BOOKLET The two poems I have chosen for my English coursework are 'A Woman to Her Lover.' and 'To His Coy Mistress.' The poem 'A Woman to Her Lover' is about a woman telling her partner what will and what will not happen in their relationship. However, in the poem 'To His Coy Mistress' the writer, who in this case is a man, is telling the woman he loves what he wants and what he will do with her. These are: he will leave jewels in India for her while he sits at home and complains, he will love her from the beginning of time and he will never leave her for anything. In 'A Woman to Her Lover' the first three verses are the things that the woman says she will not be and things she will not do which are to be a mother, a servant, an angel who is perfect and saintly or a sexual object. Whereas in 'To His Coy Mistress' the man is telling the person he loves what she is, which is beautiful, and what she is doing which is being shy but flirtatious which makes her more attractive to him but also he is implying that time is running out with phrases such as 'Had we world enough, and time,' and 'Times winged chariot hurrying near.' There is also a difference to the way the writers make the poem look, feel and sound. One possible explanation for this could be the time in which they
Compare Carol Ann Duffy's 'Valentine' to Andrew Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress'.
Compare Carol Ann Duffy's 'Valentine' to Andrew Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress' In this assignment I will be comparing two love poems Carol Ann Duffy's 'Valentine' to Andrew Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress'. The poem 'Valentine' was written is the twentieth century and in it the speaker uses onion as a metaphor to show her love. The poem 'To His Coy Mistress' was written in the seventeenth century and is about the poet trying to persuade his Mistress to sleep with him. 'Valentine' by Carol Ann Duffy is very different to any other love poem as you would expect to read something romantic, instead she writes about an onion. The poem is divided into four main stanzas and each stanza tells us something new about the relationship and in between there is one or two words in sentence which helps you think about want she is trying to say. The poem starts off with a positive statement 'Not a red rose, or a satin heart'. She states that she will not give her lover a normal valentine present. The poet has chosen to give her lover an onion. She uses the onion as a metaphor for her love. The poet says 'I give you an onion, it is moon wrapped in brown paper,' with this she creates mystery and makes her lover think the reason for this weird present. 'It promises light, like the careful undressing of love.' Here she is telling her lover that their relationship can still survive and she
With close reference to the two poems which you have studied, show how the poets have approached the theme of romantic love.
With close reference to the two poems which you have studied, show how the poets have approached the theme of romantic love. In your response, you should refer to: ) The poets' use of language, style and imagery. 2) Your personal response. For this assignment, I have chosen to analyse two contrasting poems. The first poem is "To His Coy Mistress" which was written in1650 by the English poet Andrew Marvell, and it is surprising how modern the subject matter is. This poem uses language to persuade the poet's mistress into shedding her coyness. The second poem, "Valentine" by the contemporary poet Carol Ann Duffy sets out to show how the poet casts aside the traditional artificial values of love, to place instead her own truthful picture of love. "To His Coy Mistress" is a classic seductive poem, a carpe diem poem, in which the poet expresses his sadness at the thought of time swiftly passing by and the brevity of love. It comes across as a private meditation, giving a persuasive argument to his mistress, relating to the passage of time and the fading of earthly joys. In the first part of the poem, Marvell presents us with images of time and space. He tells his mistress what they could achieve in their relationship if they had sufficient time. "Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness Lady, were no crime." Marvell uses the word "crime", in order to suggest
