Love in Andrew Marvell in To His Coy Mistress and John Donnes The Sunn

Love in Andrew Marvell in To His demure schoolmistress and illusion Donnes The Sunne uphill These cardinal poems, To His Coy Mistress and The Sunne Rising are similar poems, they are both(prenominal) metaphysical (metaphysical essence more than physical) poems written around Shakespeares date. The main theme of these poems is the same it is coquet and the love of a cleaning woman. Yet the two poets confirm very dissimilar 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 slightly 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 woman. The main theme of the two poems is love. Thither are other themes in the poems which are linked to love, in To his Coy Mistress the theme time and how it is passing by is introduced The trey stanzas develop the theme, in the first stanza the narrator in the poem negotiation about how they could be together forever, Till the conversion of the Jews this is saying how they have all the time in the founding so they can moot it slow, in the second stanza time speeds up, The graves a fine and private place, only if none, I think do there embrace. This means that he willing not be able to love her when she is dead and alone. In the triplet stanza the man is saying they cant stop time, they should take things fast and make time try and keep up with them. The Sunne Rising has a very distinct theme, it is the sun and the world, instead of the argument beingness with the woman about them being together, in The Sunne Rising it is about how the sun think... ...entre is, these walls, thy sphere. This is saying that if you shine here sun you are shining on my whole world, this room is my world and my woman is the centre of it. This shows how Donne uses imagery to illust rate the mans love for the woman and how he feels about her. This shows how both writers feel that imagery is a good manner to get feelings across within a progressing argument. These two poems have similarities in structure, poetic voice, use of imagery, tone and in the use of themes. Yet both poems also have difference in these same areas. In The Sunne Rising he already has his woman and in To his Coy Mistress he is trying to seduce the woman. I believe The Sunne Rising by John Donne was the more successful poem because I thought the author got the mans feelings for the woman across to the reader better.