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

Love in Andrew Marvell in To His overmodest Mistress and John Donnes The Sunne lift These two rimes, To His Coy Mistress and The Sunne Rising are similar poems, they are both metaphysical (metaphysical means more than physical) poems written around Shakespeares m. The main physical composition of these poems is the same it is romance and the cognise of a woman. Yet the two poets have very different 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 to the highest degree 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. There 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 three stanzas develop the theme, in the firs t stanza the narrator in the poem talks about how they could be together forever, Till the conversion of the Jews this is saying how they have all the time in the world so they can take it slow, in the second stanza time speeds up, The graves a fine and private place, But none, I think do there embrace. This means that he will not be able to love her when she is dead and alone. In the third 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 different theme, it is the sun and the world, instead of the argument being 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 flicker 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 illustrate the mans love for the woman and how he feels about her. This shows how both writers feel that imagery is a good way to get feelings across within a progressing argument. These two poems have similarities in structure, poetical 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.