Comparing To His Coy Mistress and One Flesh :: Papers

Comparing To His overmodest Mistress and virtuoso Flesh These are two poems wrote at very different seasons, and hasten some very different views more or less love and what is contained in love. Andrew Marvell wrote To His Coy Mistress, in the 17th century has views are of a man cerebration about his sex life. One Flesh, written by Elizabeth Jennings in the 20th century has views from a daughter looking at her parents with a sympathetic view. In To His Coy Mistress, the language within this poem is much like the expression of language used in Shakespeares work, and it would seem they had similar interests and motives on composing their pieces. It seems that the only reason for Marvell to write this poem was to try and get his Lady-friend to get on with their caring relationship into a sexual relationship. Within this poem exclusively he is really doing is hard to persuade his girlfriend to change her psyche about wanting to die pure and inn ocent, as she wants to die a virgin, and goes about this by describing some horrific images. This could show that he wants her to be scared out of her state of mind and into his beliefs. He starts off trying to sweeten her into wanting to have sex with him, he pronounces Had we but cosmos enough, and time, This coyness, Lady, were no crime. We would sit down, and think which way -------------------------------------- To talk, and pass our long loves day. He is saying here that if there were a limitless amount of time we would be able to go out and just think about talking to each other, but because life is short we cant do that so take a chance and do it. Then he goes onto say that in an ideal world one would have time to go to such places as India and search for rubys and he would not complain because he would have endless amounts of time with her, but this isnt an ideal world. Here he is just reinforcing his previous