Comparison of To His Coy Mistress and An Answer to a Love Letter :: Love Letters Poetry Poems Essays

Comparison of To His Coy Mistress and An Answer to a Love garnerThese two poems are meant to be a go to bed letters compose by a man to alady of higher dispo induction and an answer to that love letter, writeby that lady.The first, written by Marvell is written is sexual congress her Carpe Dieum- or Seize the Day this phrase sums up his poem, as that is what heis telling her to do all the time. This is shown by the way he hasstructured his report he starts of explaining what they could do ifthey had all of the time in the worldWe would sit and think which way toPass our eagle-eyed loves day.This means that they would just pass on the whole time talking andplanning their life because he says our long loves day and in thecontext it could mean their life (as they will love forever, thereforeall their life will just be wholeness day full of love) then he goes on tosay that although he would like to do this they cannot as they willeventually diemultiplication winged chariot hur rying nearThy beauty shall no to a greater extent be foundHe uses this imagery to show how time (death) is weirdie up on thembut fast, as in on a winged chariot. Then, in the logical fashion hecomes up with a solution that they shouldRoll all our strength and allOur sweetness into wholeness ball.This could just means that they should get together and become one,possibly through matrimony or having a child hence ball. It could be aeuphemism for having sex. merely in Montagus poem she uses a different argument. At first shesays that he is seeing a false impression of her because of all theflattery at the beginning, then saying but leaving her-tis me youpursue. She is complimenting his wife (as the man I s alreadymarries) trying to persuade him that his life at the moment is much(prenominal)better as he has a wife and money and would be stupid to leave thatbehind. Then she starts getting really aggressive and noisomeagainst mankind, likening them to pug dogs,Why should the poor pu g (the mimic of your kind) outwear a rough chain and be to a box confind?This is meant to be an immense insult against mankind- likening themto simple dogs, that to be fair are quite ugly and just sit on a roofyto be stroked all day. In saying this she infers that men have no usebut to be. In the next line she begins to give you an psyche about why