Comparing Sir John Suckling And Richard Lovelace's Song To Aramantha

This assignment will be considering whether the two poets from the restoration period Sir John Suckling and Richard Lovelace’s poetry contribute to the sense of the ‘cavalier’ and looking closely at Corn’s assessments of both poets and their perhaps royalist connection. Looking at whether their work fit into the tradition of sex and seduction within poetry, in particular, focusing on Suckling’s Encouragement to a lover and Lovelace’s Song to Aramantha.
Looking at Corn’s comments of the two writers from The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell, it is suggested that they were both indeed associated with a small group of writers and the royalist circle. To be able to discuss Corns suggestions, it is needed to understand what the term ‘Cavalier’ means within the literary circle. Pacheo …show more content…
(Lovelace, Line 8) It further becomes the object of desire from Lovelace ‘But shake your head and scatter day. (Lovelace, Line 16) ‘before the act of lovemaking commences. Lovelace cleverly displays care and consideration towards his lover in this piece, with it also painting imagery of wanton lovemaking, language is cleverly used to describe both the lover’s figures but is very suggestive towards the feminine side ‘Weary lie we down and rest, And fan each other's panting breast.’ (Lovelace, Line 19,20) Lovelace continues subtly with the penultimate stanza. This is also the most erotic writing of the poem ‘Here we'll strip and cool our fire. In cream below, in milk-baths higher’ (Lovelace, Line 20,