Love in John Donnes A Valediction Forbidding Mourning...

Love in John Donnes A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning and Andrew Marvells To His Coy Mistress John Donnes A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning and Andrew Marvells To His Coy Mistress both talk about love but has different views about it, one talks about physical love and the other talks about spiritual love. John Donnes A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning compared love to a circle while Andrew Marvels To His Coy Mistress compared love to a straight line. Both poems are act of persuasions. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning is persuading the reader that true love is eternal while To His Coy Mistress the speaker is persuading the mistress to make passionate sex with him. Therefore, with all of these similarities and†¦show more content†¦Life is viewed as linear where theres a beginning and theres an end. To His Coy Mistress is about an act of persuasion of a man who has a raging and lustful desire to consummate his love to his coy mistress. Marvell was born in Yorkshire and although he was not a Puritan himself, he supported the Puritans cause during the civil war (1142). His Puritan belief may not have influenced his poem. He wrote the poem when he was 60 years of age, same age Donne wrote his A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning. Donnes A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning in terms of structure has a sense of continuity, which resembles a circle. The poem consists of nine stanzas of four lines or quatrains. Every second line of the poem is indented as if its a weave of a basket. It has a continuous alternating pattern similar to the weavings of a basket symbolizing continuity as if its a continuous cycle, which remind you of a circle. Moreover, Donnes A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning started and ended the poem with death, again as if its a continuous cycle emulating a drawing of a circle. When you draw a circle, you start and end at the same point. Donne depicts this idea of a circle by starting and ending the poem with the same point. He pointed out that when we die we continue on and so our true love. On the other hand, the structure of Marvells To His Coy Mistress depicts a straight line where theres a beginning, a middle, and an end. TheShow MoreRelatedEmphasizing The True Meaning Of Poems By Andrew Marvell And John Donne s A Valediction : Forbidding Mourning1148 Words   |  5 Pagesseventeenth century the poets Andrew Marvell and John Donne expressed their feelings through poetry. Both John Donne, born in 1572 and Andrew Marvell, born in 1621 in England, are known for their ideas of metaphysical poetry. Metaphysical poetry is a persuasive poem that uses a conceit. It focuses on imagery, paradoxes, arguments, philosophy and religion. Andrew Marvell’s â€Å"To His Coy Mistress† and John Donne’s â€Å"A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning,† focus on the theme of love, which was trending at thatRead More Andrew Marvells To His Coy Mistress and John Donnes A Valedictorian: Forbidding Mourning1448 Words   |  6 PagesAndrew Marvells To His Coy Mistress a nd John Donnes A Valedictorian: Forbidding Mourning One may define poetry as imaginative and creative writing which uses elements like rhyme, meter, and imagery to express personal thoughts, feelings, or ideas. Certain subjects recur frequently in poetry such as carpe diem, nature, death, and family. Andrew Marvells To His Coy Mistress and John Donnes A Valediction: Forbiddmg Mourning, focus on the prevalent topic of love. Although both poemsRead MoreEssay on Love and Metaphysical Poetry1635 Words   |  7 PagesThese being A Valediction Forbidding Mourning and To His Coy Mistress. Both poems possess different themes and features that will be compared and contrasted throughout, however, are connected through the discourse of love. The four letter word with so much meaning, but what really is love? Can a definite meaning be placed upon or it, or is it perhaps a matter of opinion? John Donne’s poem, A Valediction Forbidding Mourning is a plea written to Donne’s wife asking her not to mourn his absence. Read MoreLove in HJohn Donne ´s A Valediction Forbidding Mourning and Andrew Marvell ´s To His Coy Mistress838 Words   |  4 Pagesand emotional attachments that can be defined as love. Even though writers of prose and poetry have long belabored these two specific areas of discussion, the depth and diversity in approach is something that can only be described with regards to the differential between personalities and the world you of the author in question. Accordingly, the following analysis will be concentric upon discussing and analyzing the approach and understanding of love that two specific poets exhibit within their respectiveRead MoreComparison of How John Donne and Andrew Marvell Present Death in Poems To His Coy Mistress and Holy Sonnet X1163 Words   |  5 PagesComparison of How John Donne and Andrew Marvell Present Death in Poem s To His Coy Mistress and Holy Sonnet X In the poems To His Coy Mistress and Holy Sonnet X the idea of death plays a strong part in the overall messages of the poems. Both poets use effective but very different methods in order to put forward their views and/or to make a point about society. ====================================================================== John Donnes poem Holy Sonnet X is veryRead MoreMetaphysical Poetry By John Donne1590 Words   |  7 Pageswho wrote his book which is known as ‘’Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets’’, Henry Vaughan, Andrew Marvel, Richard Crashaw, George Herbert and finally who was the main founder, John Donne. John Donne (1572 - 1631), the founder of the Metaphysical school of poetry, lived and wrote during the succeeding reigns of Elizabeth I, James 1 and Charles I. His early life was passed in dissipation and roguery, much occupied with secret love-making, elopement, imprisonment, and lawsuit over his marriageRead MoreShakespeare Sonnet 291485 Words   |  6 Pages1. Explain the similes developed in Shakespeare’s â€Å"Sonnet 18† OR â€Å"Sonnet 29.† In Shakespeare’s â€Å"Sonnet 29† he compares how his state of mind changes when he thinks about his love. This is shown in the quote, â€Å"Happly I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day rising from sullen earth.† 2. Explain the Shakespearian sonnet’s structure and rhyme scheme. †¢ Shakespearian sonnets use three quatrains and a couplet. A quatrain consists of four lines, and a couplet