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 LetterThese two poems are meant to be a love letters create verbally by a composition to alady of higher disposition and an answer to that love letter, writtenby that lady.The first, written by Marvell is written is telling 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 musical mode he hasstructured his piece 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 long loves day.This core that they would just spend the whole time talking andplanning their life because he says our long loves day and in thecontext it could mean their life (as they result love forever, thereforeall their life will just be one day full of love) then he goes on tosay that although he would like to do this they cannot as they willeventually dieTimes winged chariot hurrying nearThy beau ty shall no more be foundHe uses this imagery to show how time (death) is creeping up on them hardly 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 one 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.However in Montagus poem she uses a assorted 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 muchbetter as he has a wife and currency and would be stupid to leave thatbehind. Then she starts getting really aggressive and offensiveagainst mankind, likening them to pug dogs,Why should the poor pug (the mimic of your kind) assume a rough ch ain 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 preferably ugly and just sit on a lapto 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 idea about why