Comparative love story
These two poems reflect the meaning of love in a way that love out reaches everything else. In “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell, the poem speaks on a male lover who seeks an attempt to convince his female lover to seize the day. While “How Do I love Thee? Let me Count the Ways” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning expresses a woman’s love and herself being for something who she would give her life for. Both poems elaborate off of setting and theme with the use of enjambment to help express their true meaning of love; however one uses allusions and hyperboles to justify how far one would travel for love, while the other uses metaphors and word choice to express that love is everlasting. In “To His Coy Mistress” the main theme is portrayed on …show more content…
The mistress is presumed by the word Coy, meaning shy. His lover’s shyness goes a long way in this story. Her shyness is the reason the man feels rushed because of the amount of time he has. Even though if she takes a long time to love him it wouldn’t matter because his love will last forever. “I would love you ten years before the flood, and you should, if you please, refuse till the conversion of Jews” (8-10). Time is the reason he is in a rush. Since time is running out he shows that there isn’t much time for her to love him. “Thus, though we cannot make our sun stand still, yet we will make him run” (42, 43). In “How do I Love Thee? Let me Count the Ways” Browning composes a way to freely attach the woman to love. The woman’s love is three dimensional, creating physical way of love as if it was human-like, “I love thee to the depth and breadth and height” (1, 2). She also measures her love spiritually, “For the ends of being and ideal grace” (3, 4). Her love symbolizes everything about her. Even after existence her love will carry on with god and become eternal. “If god choose, I shall but love thee better after death” (13,
These two poems reflect the meaning of love in a way that love out reaches everything else. In “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell, the poem speaks on a male lover who seeks an attempt to convince his female lover to seize the day. While “How Do I love Thee? Let me Count the Ways” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning expresses a woman’s love and herself being for something who she would give her life for. Both poems elaborate off of setting and theme with the use of enjambment to help express their true meaning of love; however one uses allusions and hyperboles to justify how far one would travel for love, while the other uses metaphors and word choice to express that love is everlasting. In “To His Coy Mistress” the main theme is portrayed on …show more content…
The mistress is presumed by the word Coy, meaning shy. His lover’s shyness goes a long way in this story. Her shyness is the reason the man feels rushed because of the amount of time he has. Even though if she takes a long time to love him it wouldn’t matter because his love will last forever. “I would love you ten years before the flood, and you should, if you please, refuse till the conversion of Jews” (8-10). Time is the reason he is in a rush. Since time is running out he shows that there isn’t much time for her to love him. “Thus, though we cannot make our sun stand still, yet we will make him run” (42, 43). In “How do I Love Thee? Let me Count the Ways” Browning composes a way to freely attach the woman to love. The woman’s love is three dimensional, creating physical way of love as if it was human-like, “I love thee to the depth and breadth and height” (1, 2). She also measures her love spiritually, “For the ends of being and ideal grace” (3, 4). Her love symbolizes everything about her. Even after existence her love will carry on with god and become eternal. “If god choose, I shall but love thee better after death” (13,