English - Love Poetry

“A Woman to Her Lover”, on the other hand, is written by Christina Walsh in the 18th century. It describes a woman who has been proposed to. She however, wishes to have her say before agreeing. She does not wish to be treated like a queen, nor like a sex object, nor like a slave. She wants to have a strong and equal relationship with her husband, and be able to talk to him and trust him. She portrays that she does not wish to be treated like women were commonly treated at the time the poem was written. She wishes to have an uncommonly unique relationship with her husband. If he agrees with this, then she will accept the proposal.

A woman to her lover is a very sophisticated piece of poetry. The language used is complicated, and likewise is the structure.

The poems represent different types of love, and the techniques that are used to achieve this. There is a wide variety of the types of love with different aspects to the affects and meaning of love. This makes it harder to define them, as there is first love, and emotional love involved in both poems.