The art of seduction is a universal “hot” topic conversed by both men and women regardless of their race and culture. It is the means to satisfy our most primitive and biological desire as a human being which exactly seems to be the reason for it to have a long history. The art of seduction is the art of persuasion, ultimately an application utilized to reach one goal; to meet our sexual desire. This objective seems to be exactly what John Donne and Andrew Marvell are both seeking to accomplish in their poems; “The Flea” and “To His Coy Mistress”. There are countless tactics and techniques in the art of seduction and both of the poems illustrate the speakers’ own stratagem in convincing their target. In these poems, Marvell and Donne both facilitate language reflecting the comparable imageries to each other in the process of their practical pursuit for pleasure.
In “The Flea”, the speaker is lying in bed with his paramour seeking for her virginity. Although it may be feasible, I will neglect the possibility that the speaker could be a woman trying to seduce a man for the sake of my argument. In the course of his tempt, the speaker discovers the presence of a flea and realizes that it had bitten them both. He

In Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress”, the poem begins with the speaker and his “mistress” conversing. He begins the poem with, “Had we but world enough, and time,” (Marvell, line 1) and advances into a synopsis of what his vigorous love for her would drive him to do if they were both immortal. He supports this notion in the following lines by discussing it in terms of its length of time as decades and centuries. For obvious reason, this concept is negated promptly by the speaker himself; “And yonder all before us lie / Deserts of vast eternity” (Marvell, line 23, 24). Respectively, in the following passages the speaker applies his motive into the line of his goal;

In comparison, the imagery used in both “The Flea” and “To His Coy Mistress” is corresponding in a sense that they both are religious. Although, just like it was for Donne’s account, we cannot conclude that Marvell is religious in his nature. Ultimately, they are both utilizing these divine notions just for the sake of accomplishing their goal; to get laid.

“Now let us sport us while we may;

Than languish in his slow-chapp’d powder” (Marvell, lines 37-40)

In the next stanza, he puts his reasoning into action simply by arguing that they should have sex because something equivalent had already happened in the body of a flea. He immediately supports this argument by asserting, “O stay, three lives in one flea spare, / Where we almost, yea, more th