Comparing To his Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell and To his Mistress Going to Bed by John Donne

Comparing To his Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell and To his Mistress Going to Bed by John Donne

In recent times I have compared and contrasted two pieces of love

poetry, both of which are exceptionally lyrical and full of

intellectual language that bring the poems alive with elaborated

metaphors that compare dissimilar things, as they Inare equally, yet

somehow individually both metaphysical poems. The first of these poems

that I comprehended was 'To his Coy Mistress;' (written by Andrew

Marvell during the 17th century), it reflects the epic of a man who is

striving to entice a unadulterated woman into going to bed with him;

he does this by using a lot of romantic flattery and surreal imagery,

positive as well as negative. The second of the two is 'To his

Mistress going to bed;' (written in the 16th century by one of the

best known metaphysical writers, John Donne), this poem also beholds

an abundance of imagery and adulation, however it differs from 'To his

coy Mistress' for the reason that, it has more reference to sex

throughout the poem, and it is a lot more explicit all round.

Andrew Marvell was born on March 31, 1621, at Winestead-in-Holderness,

Yorkshire. Though in poems written between 1645 and 1649 he had

evinced royalist sympathies, Marvell seems to have been attracted by

the strong personality of Oliver Cromwell, and in 1650 he wrote "An

Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland." Commonly

acknowledged a masterful piece of political poetry, this ode has

occasioned some controversy as to the degree of unqualified admiration

with which the poet regards the military harshness of the Puritan

general. Most of the finest ...

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easy to say that really, he was always in charge of what was

happening.

In conclusion I found both Donne's and Marvell's poetry quite amusing

and in some ways comical, I say this for the reason that, you wouldn't

find many men writing love letters and poems to the girl they may

adore or even love nowadays, because over time or even five centuries,

people change, peoples' habits change and so do the way of their love

life. However, as a female, I still find a love letter or even a poem,

is far more affectionate than a box of chocolates ever could be, and I

also believe that behind every successful man is a woman, as Donne and

Marvell have marked their places in history by writing about the

mysterious mistress that they fell in love with, and we're reading

about in the 21st century.