Persuasive Poems

Marvell, Andrew. "To His Coy Mistress." The Hudson Book of Poetry: 150 Poems worth Reading. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002. 17-18.

“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” poem is a poem that portrays the basic romanticism of the country living which describes the nature of the environments and is very sentimental. Christopher Marlowe’s poem is showing the best fantasy of ordinary romance that would be much better felt in the countryside other than the urban side of the country. Nature is of the essence. “The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd” poem, on the other hand, is based on how he perceives “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.” Raleigh has a different perception of the nature romantics; he presents a contrast in his poem. However, they’re still examples of beautiful poetry because of THESIS STATEMENT Marlowe and Raleigh have a contradictory

While Herrick is addressing young women encouraging them to grasp their sexuality while in Marvell's poem, his speaker is persuading the women to commit in the sex act with him personally. On the other hand, both poems take after the “Carpe Diem” idea of living in the now and being merry while tomorrow humans may die or loved ones may. Both Herrick and Marvell dramatize the idea of pleasure, how it should not be held back because dying is destined. Not only that, but both poems seem to almost be like letters to someone. Marvell's poem is very powerful when describing how worms will burrow into his mistress when dead and is more personal while Herrick's is more soothing without the disgusting image and is for all young ladies. Urging women to loose their virginity is one of the big themes of both poems, except Marvell is acting as a

The final and fourth stanza is the most direct and powerful. The young women in which the poem addresses are told not to be "coy." For their receptivity to love is under their control

“To His Coy Mistress” is one-way argumentative conversation featuring one horny young man trying to convince his reluctant mistress to give up her virginity to him before she gets old. He uses the argument that she needs to have sex now because her youth and beauty will fade as she ages. He thinks they should seize the moment because life is short and she would not want to die a virgin, and he will not want her when she gets old. The beginning of this poem tells the main argument, “Had we but world enough, and

Out of all of the stories and poems in the history of the world, many of them will have similarities and differences. Merriman conveys, “If human life were not limited by space and time, the beloved’s coyness would not harm the lover and the beloved. They would sit and plan how to pass their long time.” The poem “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell is all about a man trying to convince a woman to do something she doesn’t really want to do. The poem “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” by Robert Herrick is about a man talking to many woman not to die without living. In the poems “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell and “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” by Robert Herrick there are many comparison to be made.

Between the two poems by Edgar Allen Poem, I chose the poem "Annabel Lee". He described their love like no other, a romantic love tale incomparable to others love. Mr. Poe’s love for Annabel is harmless and selfless, one love that many others desire to have. Love is almighty powerful and true love is hard to find. Edgar Allen Poe described his feelings very poetically, rhyming every line with dark and mysterious phrases, leaving others at the tip of their toes... His tone is dark but inspirational. Beginning and ending "Annabel Lee" is an exquisite and bittersweet poem. His poem ended in such sadness, envied by others of love so great and powerful. His tone is dark but inspirational. Edgar Allen Poe’s poem is read as genuine love, hard to

During the 15 and 1600 's, love was a very common theme in much of the poetry written in that time period. Most including, and wearing out common cliches about love such as, "cheeks like roses" or, "hearts pierced by the arrows of love.". John Donne, a well known poet of that time period writes many poems about love, but none using all those tired, worn out cliches. Donne brings his poems to life using vivid imagery and "elaborately sustained metaphors known as "conceits"." (The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. B 1260). In Donne 's poem "The Flea" the reader gets to see more of a funny and amusing love poem, while his poem "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" is more of a serious statement of his idea of spiritual love which he includes many brilliant metaphors. While both poems have the common theme of love, they are written very differently in language and form.

At initial glimpse of the poem’s title, one might easily misperceive the objective of the lyric as a whole and immediately assume the worst due to the evolution of terminology over time. When Marvell uses the lexeme ‘mistress’, he is referring to the term ‘lover’. In modern day terminology, ‘mistress’ could be interpreted as ‘an individual with whom an affair is occurring’.

I compared and contrasted the attitudes the women give toward the speaker in the poems “To His Coy Mistress” and “My Last Duchess.” I was able to do this by using elements like speaker, figurative language, and tone. To show how the poets reveal the attitudes that the women give off. In the poems “My Last Duchess” and “To His Coy Mistress” the speaker expresses throughout their poem that they exclusively only want to use women for pleasure and convenience. This was inferred based on their tone and figurative language used in the poem. The speaker's used a different and unusual tone and style in order to get their message about women across to us.

Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" and John Donne's "A Valediction: Forbiddmg Mourning," focus on the prevalent topic of love. Although both poems emphasize the importance and meaning of love, the tone of each poem reveals differences with regard to the conception and magnitude of the love; the diction shows contrasting ways in which each poet incorporates love into the overall theme while

The great playwright Christopher Marlowe also wrote one of the most famous lyrical poems in British literature, "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love." In this pastoral portrait, Marlowe reveals the shepherd's desire for a certain young lady to be his love. In "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd," Sir Walter Raleigh voices the young lady's answer to this invitation. The two poems share the identical structures of rhyme scheme and meter. Also, the speakers share a similar desire for youthful love. However, these similarities are overshadowed by the differences in the author's backgrounds which, in turn, influence the starkly different characteristics of the speakers of the poems--their view of reality and their motive for love.

The rhyme scheme of “Mistress” follows a standard rhyming couplet pattern, though a few of the lines are irregular. Lines 23 and 24 rhyme "lie" with "eternity," and lines 27 and 28 rhyme "try" with "virginity." It is interesting to note that lie rhymes with try, just as eternity rhymes with virginity. Marvell used this technique to change up the systemic flow of the rest of the poem. By doing this, the symbolism present have a greater impact on the reader. Images of "deserts of vast eternity" and "virginity" together instill the idea that it will be difficult to prolong virginity.

On surface level of Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress”, the reader might imagine the poem to be the speaker merely trying to get a girl to fall in love with him and be in a relationship. However, upon a closer analysis of the poem, it is evident that the speaker has a much different and deeper motive of trying to persuade this mistress to have sexual relations with him, even though the two are not held in marriage together. The speaker is able to create his argument to have sex with him by using the pressing matter of time, mainly by stating that time is dwindling and there is no time like the present.

Andrew Marvell 's poem, ‘To His Coy Mistress’ (hereafter I shall refer to the poem as ‘Mistress’) is a beautifully provocative poem. ‘Mistress’ encompasses many literary techniques including tone, imagery, alliteration, metaphor, irony, enjambment and similes. It is written in iambic tetrameter as a three part proposition to his mistress, and Marvell employs alternative poetic styles (as mentioned previously) to enhance each of the three arguments in the poem. In essence, ‘Mistress’ examines the assertion that after death, morality is of no value. Marvell accentuates the triviality of his mistress being vain during her lifetime, emphasizing that she must do away with all trepidation when it comes to temptation. Like many metaphysical poets