Essays On Books

Explore Hardy’s attitude towards industrialisation in phase the fourth. Industrialisation became a growing presence amongst the Victorian Era and had an elusive yet undeniable impact on the population. Within the novel Tess Of The d’Urbervilles and in particular phase the fourth, Industrialisation is heavily focused on and explored. However Hardy establishes a balanced and ambivalent […]

It has been said that writer’s use memento mori to represent how the prospect of death serves to emphasise the emptiness and fleetingness of earthly pleasures. Compare and contrast the ways in which authors use momento mori and the extent to which they can be seen as delivering a moral message.In many texts writers use […]

Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” presents a skillfully crafted plea for sexual union with the speaker’s addressee. The argument put forth is subtle and logical, relying on finesse in the manipulation of reason, form, and imagery. The use of classical philosophical logic, characterized by a statement and counter-statement followed by a resolution, is familiar […]

In this essay I am going to be comparing and contrasting the style of which William King and Andrew Marvel present the relationships between the gentlemen and mistresses in the poems ‘The Beggar Woman’ and ‘To His Coy Mistress’ In both poems, the gentlemen are trying to persuade the mistresses to have sex with them; […]

In To His Coy Mistress and A Woman to Her Lover, different loves are portrayed and the way the poets have shown the attitudes towards love are form, structure, different rhyme schemes, altering tones of voice and punctuation. There are two main types of love in To His Coy Mistress; there is a desire for […]

In this essay I am going to compare the two poems ‘A Woman to Her Lover’ by Christina Walsh, written in the middle of the nineteenth century and ‘To His Coy Mistress’ by Andrew Marvell, from the seventeenth century. Each of the two poems show a different gender perspective and the different views on marriage […]

To His Coy Mistress, written by Andrew Marvell in 1681 and The Flea, written by John Donne in 1633 are examples of metaphysical poetry. Both of the poems try to convince their partner to have sex with the poet. The poems are also examples of dramatic lyric poetry because the poet addresses another person and […]

The four seventeenth century “love poems” I will be comparing are “To His Coy Mistress”, “Shall I Compare Thee” and “My Mistress’ Eyes”, along with “The Flea”. All the four poems are based on the subject of “love”. Each poem touches on a different aspect of love although they all have a lot in common. […]

The poem ‘To His Coy Mistress’ is about a man who is pressurising his mistress or girlfriend to live for the moment. In other words it means that he wants her to have sex with him. The poem that I have chosen to write about is a ‘Carpe diem’ poem, which is a traditional motive […]

Both poems were written in the seventeenth century, though their subject matters differ. The Sonnet’s subject matter is intended to be an ode of love to a woman, saying how he will love her even when she is old. Contrastingly, To His Coy Mistress is more about lust. It is quite crude, with the poet […]

In my essay I’m going to compare two poems, which are ‘To His Coy Mistress’ and ‘My Last Duchess’. I am going to show their similarities and differences, but also the ways they are written and what makes them so powerful.For the first, both poems have something to do with women, in the poem: ‘To […]

Both of these poems are Metaphysical in many ways. The term ‘Metaphysical’ refers to matters that are literally ‘beyond the physical’ – this is things such as God, heaven and hell, the soul and the meaning of life. They looked past visible life to discover the concealed beauty beneath. Much of their work contained an […]

The poems To His Coy Mistress (1650-1652) and To His Mistress Going To Bed (1635) which was written by Andrew Marvell and John Donne respectively, was written about a man trying to seduce a woman. In To his coy mistress, the speaker uses flattery, he compliments her natural beauty and body. The speaker compares her […]

In ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and ‘To his Coy Mistress’ and ‘A Valediction Forbidding Mourning’, the strength of love is presented in many different ways. In ‘To his coy mistress’, we can tell that the strength of love present is relatively weak, and seems lustful and more physical. ‘A valediction forbidding mourning’ seems opposite to this […]

“The Rendezvous” is about a man who is waiting for his woman but she does not turn up, however he believes she will turn up. “To His Coy Mistress” is about a man who is trying to persuade woman to have sex with him, but she doesn’t want to. “Shall I compare thee to a […]

The poem is about Marvell’s desire to bed the woman to whom he’s writing the poem. He is talking to the woman and the piece is essentially persuasive writing, the writer is writing to prove a point and to get his on way. He’s breaking into the woman’s emotions and using it against her. He […]

Latin used different words for different types of love, for example when talking about sex, and love between a partner, the word they used was eros. They also have words for friendship, love of a family member and even a word for love of pleasure. However English only has one word for all types of […]

All of the above poems are mainly about love. They are about men and women about loving and caring for each other, but this isn’t always the case. Sometimes they don’t always get along well and could lead to break up in relationships. Love is a key aspect in many of people’s lives today in […]

In modern society there are different views on what love means: romantic, platonic, passionate and possessive love. The dictionary definition of love reads “to have great attachment to and affection for” and “to have passionate desire, longing feelings for” although every individual has a different notion of what love means, just as each of the […]

Before I answer the question, I need to look at what love is. Love can be defined in many ways. The Oxford English dictionary defines love as: ‘an intense feeling of deep affection’ or ‘a deep romantic or sexual attachment to someone’. However love means something different to different people. To some people love can […]

Despite sharing the goal of seducing an unresponsive love interest, To His Coy Mistress and The Flea employ distinct approaches to accomplish their objectives. The focus of the speaker in To His Coy Mistress is mainly on time, along with the physical appearance of his mistress. On the other hand, the speaker in The Flea […]

A brilliant example of a light-hearted love poem is the Post 20th Century poem ‘I wanna be yours’, by John Cooper Clarke. We can tell straight away that it is light-hearted because of the way the title is written. This poem has no punctuation. This speeds up the poem and goes straight to the point […]