Love in Andrew Marvell in To His Coy Mistress and John...

Love in Andrew Marvell in To His Coy Mistress and John Donnes The Sunne Rising These two poems, To His Coy Mistress and The Sunne Rising are similar poems, they are both metaphysical (metaphysical means more than physical) poems written around Shakespeares time. The main theme of these poems is the same; it is romance and the love of a woman. Yet the two poets have very different opinions on these two things. Within both poems are arguments, in To His Coy Mistress it is with the woman and in The Sunne Rising it is with the sun. The Sunne Rising is about a mans argument with the sun over how important it is compared to his woman. To his Coy Mistress is about a man trying to seduce the†¦show more content†¦These two themes are different yet they are introduced in similar ways, in The Sunne Rising this theme is introduced straight away, as the first line is insults towards the sun. In To his Coy Mistress the theme of time is introduced at the start of the poem, yet it is introduced a bit softer and slower than in The Sunne Rising. The two theme are bot h linked to love because they help the writers describe the mans love for the woman. The poems have some differences as well as similarities, one of these being that The Sunne Rising is about personification of the sun, and how the man describes his love of his woman to the sun. His Coy Mistress is different as it is about a man trying to seduce the woman. This shows how the main themes are slightly different because the type of love for the two women mentioned in the poems is slightly different because, in The Sunne Rising the man is describing the love that he has for his woman is the long lasting and will last forever and in His Coy Mistress the mans love is for a woman he just met, and is trying to seduce. AnotherShow MoreRelated A Comparison of Andrew Marvells To His Coy Mistress and John Donnes The Sunne Rising1925 Words   |  8 PagesA Comparison of Andrew Marvells To His Coy Mistress and John Donnes The Sunne Rising Both poems To His Coy Mistress and The Sunne Rising were written by metaphysical poets, this is one of many similarities in the poems. However, there are also a number of differences between them. In both poems, there is an obvious link to the theme of Carpe Diem which simply means seize the day. The poems relate to time and that of how its running out. They seem to be in