For His Son

1. Shakespeare’s, “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day”, is a poem showing how a man sees his woman as beautiful as a summer’s day. The comparison to a summer’s day is saying that the woman is very beautiful like a bright, warm, and calming summer day. The speaker is saying that the woman will forever be beautiful as long as there is life. The woman’s skin is beautiful like the sun shines and is very hot. The woman is very warm and gentle, and is perfect just the way she is. The love will…

instance, Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress," depicts an unnamed speaker yearning to obtain a Mistress's love, but is overcome with anxiety due to his idea that life is short. Furthermore, in "When I have Fears," John Keats displays his desires to achieve fame and love, but becomes defeated upon realization that his dreams will remain as dreams and nothing more. Lastly, in Robert Browning's poem, "Porphyria's Lover," he conveys Porphyria's lover strangling Porphyria due to his desire to…

Furthermore, mental conflict is explored through a number of poems studied this year, by diverse poets and varied literary techniques to exploit this conflict. Silvia Plath lost her father at 8, marred into an abusive relation at 20 and took her own life at the age of 31, all events suggest that Plath’s life was far from mentally stable and this is reflected on her work. A piece called Daddy is about the feeling of rejection, Plath utilises holocaust imagery to describe the relation between…

The piece, "To His Coy Mistress," by Andrew Marvell demonstrates his passion for a beauty he sees in a woman, although through use of allusions and references to geographical locations, objects, and even possession of power. For example, he states, "Love you ten years before the Flood, / And you should, if you please, refuse / Till the conversation of the Jews (8-10)." This I think really emphasizes the theme of the piece as statements are exaggerated and relative to significant events. Beyond…

When you grow you will find that you have to make different decisions in your life some harder than others and some simpler than others. In the novel Lyddie by Katherine Paterson. The story is about a girl named Lyddie her mom and her 2 sister left to live on their aunts farm and her mom sold Lyddie and her brother to work. Lyddie started to work at a mill as a maid then she was transfer to a weaving room and her brother to work on a farm to pay det of her family. While there are many reasons…

short poems, “The Flea” by John Donne and “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell, the theme of carpe diem, or “seize the day”, is incorporated in these poems. In other words, the theme is about enjoying life in the moment and to make the most of it because life is short. In both of these poems, the writers express that theme by attempting to persuade women to seize the day. In other words, they are poems of seduction. In the poems in Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” and John Donne’s “The…

Chaucer’s “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue” and Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” there are both similarities and differences in regards to gender. The representation of Marvell’s speaker as a male who uses his persistent, manipulative nature outlines his disrespect towards women, and their coyness towards sexuality. Chaucer’s uses of a female as his poems lead challenges the expected female standards of her time; not only is his female character outwardly sexual, but she uses it to manipulate…

As a young girl, I spent the vast majority of my time sequestered in my room with my dolls. They helped me to escape my reality. They listened to me without judgement and gave voice to the conversations that I desperately wanted to have but could not. I remember vividly wanting a Barbie that had brown hair and green eyes. I wanted a doll that represented me, one that looked like me or at least seemed like the person I wanted to grow up to be. I don’t remember my age when I saw my first…

whereas sonnet 130 is more negative looking at the down side of things. Throughout Sonnet 18, a woman's beauty is compared with wonderful things. He starts the poem by using a rhetorical question comparing love to a summers say. He then starts describing his love as more temperate and lovely than a summer’s day. Throughout the poem he continues to point out the faults and problems of summer, including, rough winds, heat and rainy days. The last six…

The final stanza draws down from the compression and peak feeling of the previous stanza, keeping the sense of the old woman’s liveliness, however in the kinaesthetic verbs “drawing,”, “opening.” “grow”, “puts on,” “arranges” and “places.” The juxtaposition of the actual and active of the first line and the abstract “years,” or “time” as a burden and measurable, maintains blood-heat for the poem while the placing of opposites : “Grow less and less” quickens the pulse a little, as the reader…