Seduction In 'To His Coy Mistress' By Andrew Marvell

Jonathan Swift’s poem, “A Lady’s Dressing Room,” represents a man’s love for a woman as the author, Strephon, and audience explore the happenings inside a woman’s bedroom. Like many other men, Strephon is an obsessed lover whose vision of women is distorted by eighteenth century radical ideals of love and beauty. While the poem is a satire, Swift tries to establish that love is blind and presents that love is only based on beauty of women. By introducing an idealistic lover into a realistic environment, he examines the disturbing end results as Celia falls from her godlike state. As she is humanized, Swift successfully demolishes the ridiculous fantasies of love and beauty, and men are also able to see more clearly behind the clothing and make-up.

The Imperfect Enjoyment, has small reveals that will leave the reader puzzled, shocked, laughing, or shaking their head in disapproval. Using tone, meter and punctuation, the speaker conveys a picture of the many grotesque women of his past and how they measure up to his current lover. In line fifty, the author places “what” at the beginning of an iambi... ... middle of paper ... ... He thinks of himself as an aggressive, hyper masculine sexual being; he’s a lot of man. The speaker’s inability to perform sexually with an “oyster-cinder-beggar-common whore”, makes the failure even more embarrassing.

“Porphyria’s Lover” and “My Last Duchess” contain features of obsessive love. In my essay, I would like to pay particular attention to unrequited love because it shows how the women in the poems are seen as a possession, which the men must rightfully have. I will also look at aspects of obsessive love. “To His Coy Mistress” is not generally positioned in this type of love as the poem does not really contain obsessive love, but in my opinion it can be placed in the category as the speaker is pressuring the girl into having sex with him and he wants her to sleep with him now. He is being seen as obsessive and wanting things his way, immediately.

Hamlet’s sexual desires are unique in that they ironic so he can pursue Ophelia with perverse approaches but then lecture her for not being chaste. However these are when gender roles come involved because why is it that Hamlet can place blame on his mom and Ophelia, deflecting from his own sexual emotions and not feel shame. It’s as if men can go on not being chaste without judgment, and are free to explore and live out their sexual desires without ridicule but when a women does it their ciaos. I believe these questionable gender roles are what sparks the conversation about

This type of love he is describing in unrequited love, a love that is not returned, in this case it is not returned by Rosaline whom Romeo believes he is in love with. This love is contrasting to a situation coming about in the Capulet family, Paris'loves' Juliet but his love is not returned. William Shakespeare uses his language and words carefully. Sampson and Gregory talk of sex in a crude nature and speak of women as subordinate. The feuding has turned their minds so much that they would even rape the Montague women.

Response to His Coy Mistress Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" is the charming depiction of a man who has seemingly been working very hard at seducing his mistress. Owing to Marvell's use of the word "coy," we have a clear picture of the kind of woman his mistress is. She has been encouraging his advances to a certain point, but then when he gets too close, she backs off, and resists those same advances. Evidently, this has been going on for quite some time, as Marvell now feels it necessary to broach the topic in this poem. He begins in the first stanza by gently explaining that his mistress's coyness would not be a "crime" if there were "world enough, and time…" (l.2).

He tells her if there was time, he would love each and every part of her “Two hundred to adore each breast, But thirty thousand to the rest.” He says she deserves the finest treatment, “For, Lady, you deserve this state,” I think he is only trying to trick her make her believe this would be the right thing to do. The second part is very sad for a man to go to these extremes in order to fulfill his selfish needs. The man again stresses there is no time, saying “But at my ba... ... middle of paper ... ...our hands were like paws”; some alliterations such as ‘thik oon’ and ‘theas oon’, ‘t’other’; ‘blue and bleak’; ‘megrims or melancholy’. Overall, in his poem I think Hardy made fun of the societal hypocritical morals; besides the women were having sex with men, and these men should have been condemned as well. Comparing these two poems, they both are about sex, women, and modesty.

John Donne’s “The Flea” details the attempts of a lover to convince his partner of the insignificance of physical love through conceit. The desperate lover hopes to woo ahesitant woman to have sex with him because physical love means nothing. Donne utilizes biblical allusions through symbolism and slant rhyme as the speaker builds and rebuilds his crooked case for the unimportance of sex. When the action of the poem shifts, the speaker’s argument shifts accordingly. The flea transforms into a symbol of the conscience that is the main obstacle to the physical love that the speaker seeks.

Love in Valentine and The Flea Through a close analysis of language, structure and theme, compare and contrast the poets' attitude to love in Valentine and The Flea. The poem "The Flea" is about a man trying to cunningly argue a woman into bed. John Donne's "The Flea" was a metaphysical poem, written most probably, to entertain an audience of men; this was called a coterie, which was a group of like-minded individuals who cleverly wrote for each other's amusement. This poem was written sometime in the 17th century where religion was extremely important and sex before marriage frowned upon. The poet is exploring ideas and feelings about lust and how unimportant losing virginity is, which a woman will obviously object to.

One of these elements is irony. Not only does irony add to the comical aspect of the piece, it also aids the author in conveying their point for their argument against society. An example of irony in Lysistrata is when the Magistrate claims that the plan of abstinence won’t work because the men won’t ever obey the women. This is ironic because in the end the men concede and fall for the plan. Myrrhine’s husband pathetically begs her to lay with him, claiming to do whatever he needs so that she will concede.