The Flea by John Donne and To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell Essay

The Flea by John Donne and To His demure Mistress by Andrew MarvellThe Flea by John Donne is written in the 17th century as is To hiscoy mistress by Andrew Marvell. This we rout out see by the oral communication employwhich was typical of that period in time apt to come out me and yeawhich are taken from the flea. Both poems in like manner speak of virginity being very important, especially before marriage because if a womanhad wooly-minded her maidenhead before, the husband would have the right toleave her without the need for a divorce.Both poems have the same theme of seduction. In The flea this is put across in each in three regular stanzas where as To His Coy Mistressis written in to sections. This is to convey that each stanza is still slightly the same subject because they are of similar lengths and writingstyle. The first stanza of The Flea conveys the subject of how theflea has taken blood from both of their bodies and has combine it inthe body of the flea, and so ma king them united as one And in thisflea, our two bloods mingled be. Donnes argument is based on thisflea throughout the three stanzas and goes on to bring down his persuasionthat the flea has had its pleasure in the family of food, and so why canthey not enjoy in a sexual relationship and witness pleasuresimilar to what the flea has had, but without the trouble of wooingher leading on to marrying her. In the second stanza he then goes onto further stir his argument (which at this time seems to be goingquite intumesce) that in the fleas living wall of jet they have been puttogether up to now though her parents have doubts Though parents grudgeand are almost conjoin (since their bloods have been combined andbecome one which, in that period of ... ... with her. all the same the type of love mostpeople would like to feel is that in Shall I Compare Thee whichdisplays a staggering amount of compliments for the noblewoman in the poem.Overall these poems are very different in their line drawing of love, buteach manage to convey it to the reader exceedingly well through use ofstructure (such as the dramatic monologue form of My Last Duchessthat manoeuvers his self centeredness and control), language (such as thecomplementary language used in Shall I Compare Thee). Imagery isalso used in effect (as in First Love when Clare describes himselfas winter and girls as flowers to show that he does not complywith them). The actual content used is also very effective as in ToHis Coy Mistress, where the syllogism and the tactic of complementsand frightening are used to, what is in my opinion, good effect.