‘To his coy mistress’ shows a darker experience to love, rather than just simply concentrating on the stereotype of love everyone seems to have fixed in their minds (Pleasant, truthful, loving, stable, serious etc). The poem shows how love can sometimes be used in a negative way to try and lure someone into a sexual situation and also shows that not all people are after love but are just simply after a one off fling “and into ashes all my lust”
The poem’s structured almost like an argument rather than a love poem and is set out in 3 stages- Praise” A hundred years should go to praise”, Threat, “Times winged chariot hurrying near”, and passion “Let us roll all our strength up into one ball”, This just adds to the dark experience on the woman’s side.
Another poem with a slightly different experience to love but the same attitude as to ‘To his coy mistress’ is ‘the beggar woman’, this poem has the same attitude in the sense that the man is only after one thing from the woman but is shown in a very different way.
Unlike ‘To his coy mistress’ the poem is set out more like a story rather than a love poem and so it doesn’t quite seem as ‘real’.
During this poem the woman again encounters not a very pleasant experience and is almost treated like an animal from the man, there to do what he wishes with “He ambles on before, she trots behind”. The man within the poem just simply sees her as a sex object and somehow views himself as more superior to her, obviously as she isn’t nowhere near as wealthy as him “Retire a little way into the wood?”. Even though the woman slyly agrees to the mans crude offer you soon see that she was just simply luring him into a trap, and so gets her revenge on the man for the experience at the end of the poem “Sir goodbye, ben’t angry that we part” by leaving him with her baby.
Even though the man plans to simply just use the woman, the not so pleasant experience ends off not as unpleasant as ‘To his coy mistress’, as the man eventually gets what he deserves after the woman takes the chance to get her own back “To try a year or two how you’ll keep this”. The woman gradually takes control of the whole situation, which leads to her victory against the man and so the lustful, crude experience turns out not so bad after all.
‘I wanna be yours’ creates a very different experience to love compared to the other 2 poems and is a much more pleasant, nice attitude towards the subject “Let me be your vacuum cleaner, breathing in your dust”. The poem is more of a comical poem throughout “let me be your ford cortina”, but only in the last 2 lines do you see a more loving, caring approach and attitude to how the poet feels “I don’t wanna be hers, I wanna be yours”. Suddenly what just seemed as a very unserious, weird, quite funny poem turns into a loving one, just by simply adding those two lines right at the end of the poem.
‘I wanna be yours’ is a funny but nice and caring experience towards love and is a very lighthearted poem but still pleasant at the same time “that’s how deep is my emotion”, unlike the other 2 poems which both had bad, lustful, sexual experiences towards love.
All poems show different experiences of love- Violence, lust, passion, caring, comical, loving etc and all 3 poems show how there are many different kinds of love- both negative and positive kinds.
