The author Andrew Marvell tries to convince his “coy mistress” into giving him her passion and then giving up her virginity. He is using her because she is wanting someone to love and to admire, she is in fear of losing her beauty and she is trying to hang on to her youth and is trying to persuade her that he is in love with her. He is putting a lot of pressure on her and having her believe that they have little time together. In Marvell first approach, at first he seems genuine because he has led
“The Flea” and “To His Coy Mistress,” the Metaphysical Poets John Donne and Andrew Marvel wittingly construct their poems in a form of an argument, encouraging sexual relations among young women. Metaphysical Poets are celebrated for their daring criticism of society through their mixture of ordinary speech with paradoxes, puns, and conceits; they aimed to express the ultimate nature of reality. In their renowned love poems, “The Flea” and “To His Coy Mistress,” Donne and Marvel embrace sexuality
“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”, written by Christopher Marlowe, the speaker expresses his love for a girl with passion, while the poem “To His Coy Mistress”, written by Andrew Marvell, the speaker expresses his love for his mistresses through hyperboles. Comparing in contrasting the two poems both are very similar. Both poems express their love to their mates in excessive terms, but is one poem more sincere than the other? The poem “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” is about a man wanting
In Andrew Marvell’s poem, “To His Coy Mistress,” the speaker of the poem attempts to seduce a woman by providing “logical” arguments as to why she should engage in the act of love making with him. Assuming that he succeeds, this situation would be handled very differently if it were to take place in the present day, as opposed to it happening in the seventeenth-century. In his first attempt to get his mistress into bed with him, the speaker of the poem surprisingly does not start off with an argument