The Sun Rising, To His Coy Mistress, How Do I Love Thee? And Porphyria 's Lover, were exceptional poetry written by classical poets including Andrew Marvell, John Donne and with Victorian poets written by Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barret Browning, respectively. These 4 poems explore the same key ideas of love and relationship ranging from religious, obsessive to irrational love yet different in approach.They present these aspects of love to the audience by portraying a correlation between love, power and...
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Relationships are not easy by any means. There are three pieces of literature in this unit that express this truth very well. “The Storm” and “The Story of an Hour” are both works by Kate Joplin, and Andrew Marvell continues the expression of this feeling in his poem “To His Coy Mistress.” Each of these poems allows the reader to get a perspective on how different relationships have different complications and how every situation is a little different, yet the...
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The seventeenth century – and the times before that – were not particularly great times to live in as a woman. Today we live in a mostly patriarchal society where men often have a lot more to say than women, but we also have feminism and feminist theory. Simone de Beauvoir states that “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman” , which suggests the society at large and its arbitrary rules concerning boys and girls, men and women,...
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Cavalier and Metaphysical poetry are two emerging types of poetry styles that became more prevalent in 17th century England. The two forms of poetry are different in style, topic, and in form. Cavalier poetry has a rhyme scheme, while Metaphysical poetry does not. Yet, their themes are very different, one speaks about emotion while the other speaks more on comparisons. These two types of poems also have “seize the day” mentalities. Cavalier poems, like Thomas Carew’s Ingrateful Beauty Threatened, have...
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Introduction Andrew Marvel’s ‘To His Coy Mistress’ and Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnet 116’ address the subject matter of love but two different perspectives. As evident in the poems, the speakers perceive and speak of love differently. As ‘To His Coy Mistress’ focuses more on the seduction and sexual expression of love whereas Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 is more about spiritual love which is platonic and goes beyond physicality. While ‘To His Coy Mistress’ is more about making the most of what we have...
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Every poem has its own way to interpret the message that the author is trying to convey. This happens through the usage of figurative language. The poems “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” by William Shakespeare and “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell have their own interpretations of a mistress through a variety of elements, but both are very different. The difference between “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” by William Shakespeare and “To His...
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Marvel is a poet attracted by complexity and paradox. He refuses to oversimplify the themes and experiences he explored in his poetry, whether it is idyllic or public political work. His best poems often show ambiguity and irony. This is not just a stylistic approach, but Marvell likes to see a multifaceted reflection of seemingly simple situations. In addition, Marvell was artistically influenced by other metaphysical poets such as John Donne. He avoided cliche and poetic conventions and used clever...
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In Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,” the shepherd promises certain pleasures if the person he loves will “come live with [him].” The shepherd promises for his love in lines 15-16 “Fair lines slippers for the cold, / With buckles of the purest gold.” amd in lines 17-22,“A belt of straw and ivy buds, / With coral clasps and amber stud,” which is idealistic because in the sixteenth century, gold and other precious metals were not readily available to...
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