A Comparison Of Go, Lovely Rose And To His Coy Mistress

Go lovely rose, to his coy mistress: a compare and contrast analysis. Poetry is, and has always been, one of the quickest ways to a woman’s heart. Through a series of romantic verses and enticing stanzas, a speaker may set out to express their interests for the ones they desire. The speakers in the poems of Andrew Marvel’s “To His Coy Mistress,” and Edmund Waller’s “Go,Lovely Rose,” both use poetry as a means of enticing their desired woman. The speakers of both poems begin by complimenting their mistresses and expressing how beautiful they think they are. Next, they extend their discussions to explain that beauty, as well as life, is not everlasting. As a result, they should allow themselves to be loved while their beauty and lives …show more content…
The first and the foremost difference among the poems of Go, Lovely Rose and To His Coy Mistress, are the speakers themselves. Much can be said about the characteristics and personality of the speakers from just the way they present their arguments. In “To His Coy Mistress,” the speaker, presumably an anonymous man, begins his dramatic monologue by explaining to his coy mistress that “had [they] but enough world and time,” his lady’s coyness would “be no crime.” He then adds, “an hundred year should go to praise, thine eyes and on thy forehead gaze, two hundred to adore each breast, but thirty thousand to the rest.” From these lines, we may attribute a few characteristics to our speaker. Firstly, from the way he complements and praises his mistress, we many infer that he is an intense,confident, and bold man who possess little to no bashful attributes. We may also infer that he has a very playful mindset because of the way he sexually compliments his woman. The fact that he speaks directly to his mistress …show more content…
Secondly, the originality and creativity of his meta-physical style, in addition to the beauty behind his ironic statements, suggests that he is a very passionate and unconventional speaker. Furthermore, when he says “and you should, if you please, refuse, till the conversion of the Jews,” it signals that the speaker is a well educated man, who is well informed about extremist apocalyptical ideologies. Overall, one may conclude that the speaker of this poem has a charming personality. However, this is not the case when analyzing the personality of the speaker from the poem Go,Lovely rose. In contrast to the speaker from To his coy mistress, who addresses his mistress directly, the speaker from the second poem chooses to address his mistress indirectly, and