A Comparison of ‘To His Coy Mistress’ by Andrew Marvell and ‘Cousin Kate’ by Christina Rossetti

falls in love with a great lord (a rich and powerful man), but then he

fate of the lovers will be, as well as the state of his own feelings

The poem ‘Maude Clare’ highlights the good and bad, humble and hubris through the characters Maude Clare and Nell. Rossetti uses similes to show the qualities of the two women, Maude being the tempter of sin and pride, ‘like a queen’, and Nell being that which is of purity and humility, ‘like a village maid’. The religious references are very apparent with the washing of hands, ‘I wash my hands thereof’, referring to the purifying of Christ

Robert Browning wrote the two poems, "My Last Duchess" and "Porphyria's Lover." Both poems convey an thoughtful, examination profound commentary about the concept of love.

Ferdinand’s incestuous behaviour towards the duchess follows the similar pattern pointed above ,i.e., Ferdinand’s aim is not the achievement of sexual relations with his sister. One may like to contest this reading by highlighting Ferdinand’s highly erotic language for

He uses this in the poem to give it rhythm to engage the reader and

  In eighteenth century novels, a common means of discussing the role of women in society is through the characterization of two good sisters. The heroine of such a novel is a pure, kind young woman who also has a streak of spunkiness. Her sister may be more good and kind, but she is more submissive and reserved. I would like to look at these sisters (and their mothers) in Ann Radcliffe’s A Sicilian Romance , and The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole.

teenage girl who meets a boy at a party, they get on well and leave

while or was it all just a game to him? He used her and made her

The Canterbury Tales, written by Geoffrey Chaucer around 1386, is a collection of tale told by pilgrims on a religious pilgrimage. Two of these tales, "The Knight's Tale" and "The Wife of Bath's Tale", involve different kinds of love and different love relationships. Some of the loves are based on nobility, some are forced, and some are based on mutual respect for each partner. My idea of love is one that combines aspects from each of the tales told in The Canterbury Tales.

only way this is possible is to kill her. This occurs to him after he

vegetable in that it is not adaptable. She is the water, food, and light for

Andrew Marvell's elaborate sixteenth century carpe diem poem, 'To His Coy Mistress', not only speaks to his coy mistress, but also to the reader. Marvell's suggests to his coy mistress that time is inevitably rapidly progressing and for this he wishes for her to reciprocate his desires and to initiate a sexual relationship. Marvell simultaneously suggests to the reader that he or she should act upon their desires as well, to hesitate no longer and seize the moment before time, and ultimately life, expires. Marvell makes use of allusion, metaphor, and grand imagery in order to convey a mood of majestic endurance and innovatively explicate the carpe diem motif.

The notion of time is used as the basis for the argument in 'To his

happens to one of them or if one of them dies. He says he wants them