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donne and marvell

            Compare and contrast the presentation and treatment of love and sex in the poems of Donne and Marvell.
             AVFM is written in the voice of a lover, addressing the woman his is about to be separated from. Evokes a sense of firm and deeply-based emotion. Define relationsihip between the lovers which makes separation unimportant, or even impossible. Draws analogies from impersonal world of science and craftsmanship to describe what binds and unifies the lovers. .
             First conceit: metaphysical. Alliterated "s" sounds in ll,1 make us hear the whispering of the dying man. And assonance between "now no" continues the effect, representing faint respiration which the friends are straining to hear. Also comparison normal: death for lovers = separation, he develops idea that untroubled separation is like incongruous death dropping out of sight.
             Shows restraint himself, by adopting a simple poetic form and manner which invites none of his characteristic flamboyance. .
             For "dull sublunary lovers", cannot reconcile themselves to parting because for them, bodily separation is absolute, as hey know nothing beyond physical love. .
             Interassured of the mind: lovers form a single being, sharing a single soul; and their unity is not to be fractured by physical separation, rather their shared soul will extend itelfs as the gap between their bodies widens. .
             Fixed leg of compass represents constancy and fidelity of the woman, and the assurance of her firmness gives Donne the power to make his own circle true: both loving her with equal constancy, and throughout his journey moving along a line that must bring him back to his starting point in her. .
             THCM Each of the sections has a distinctive tone and mood - relaxed, terror, and fierce determination - and its own pace; and Marvell does not attempt to combine these stongly disparate elements into a continuous design. Each is completely at variance with the other two, and the dramatic shock of juxtaposition repeats an effect Donne.


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1. To His Coy Mistress

Two poets in particular, Andrew Marvell and John Donne, wrote carpe diem poetry full of vivid imagery and metaphysical conceits. ... This message can be clearly seen in the poems "To his Coy Mistress" by Marvell and Donne's "Flea." ... To his Coy Mistress" is similar in many ways to Donne's "Flea." ... Donne uses the metaphysical conceit of a flea to symbolize the love shared between them. ... Donne also uses iambic tetrameter in the AA, BB, CC, etc., form. ...

  • Word Count: 923
  • Approx Pages: 4
  • Grade Level: High School

2. To his Coy Mistress

Two poets in particular, Andrew Marvell and John Donne, wrote carpe diem poetry full of vivid imagery and metaphysical conceits. ... This message can be clearly seen in the poems "To his Coy Mistress" by Marvell and Donne's "Flea." ... To his Coy Mistress" is similar in many ways to Donne's "Flea." ... Donne uses the metaphysical conceit of a flea to symbolize the love shared between them. ... Donne also uses iambic tetrameter in the AA, BB, CC, etc., form. ...

  • Word Count: 921
  • Approx Pages: 4
  • Grade Level: High School

3. Donne And Marvel

Compare and contrast the presentation and treatment of love and sex in the poems of Donne and Marvell. ... THCM Each of the sections has a distinctive tone and mood - relaxed, terror, and fierce determination - and its own pace; and Marvell does not attempt to combine these stongly disparate elements into a continuous design. Each is completely at variance with the other two, and the dramatic shock of juxtaposition repeats an effect Donne. ... FLEA Donne sets out to demonstrate that resistance is logically indefensible, not to frighten her that beauty must fade. ... Marvell adopts differe...

  • Word Count: 518
  • Approx Pages: 2
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

4. Donne and Marvel

Compare and contrast the presentation and treatment of love and sex in the poems of Donne and Marvell. ... THCM Each of the sections has a distinctive tone and mood - relaxed, terror, and fierce determination - and its own pace; and Marvell does not attempt to combine these stongly disparate elements into a continuous design. Each is completely at variance with the other two, and the dramatic shock of juxtaposition repeats an effect Donne. ... FLEA Donne sets out to demonstrate that resistance is logically indefensible, not to frighten her that beauty must fade. ... Marvell adopts differe...

  • Word Count: 511
  • Approx Pages: 2
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

5. Renaissance Seduction

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". ... 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. ... Just like in Donne's account, Marvell expresses his notion utilizing some religious imagery. ... Although, just like it was for Donne's account, we cannot conclude that Marvell is religious in his nature. ... In short, John Donne and Andrew Marvell are very...

  • Word Count: 1015
  • Approx Pages: 4
  • Grade Level: High School

6. Scent Of A Woman

John Donne's "The Flea," Robert Herrick's "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time," and Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress," all seem to have been written with one objective: to charm her into surrender. ... By its title, one may assume that Donne's "The Flea" concerns nothing more than a blood sucking parasite; this, in fact, exposes his speakers strategy. In pointing out the far-fetched, yet ironically logical, similarities between sex and a fleabite, Donne's speaker hopes to coax his lover into pre-marital relations. ... (1-4) (This and all other references ...

  • Word Count: 2776
  • Approx Pages: 11
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: High School

7. Fluctuation in tones

Andrew Marvell's writing in "To His Coy Mistress" was more difficult to understand than Donne's writing. ... Donne started his writing in the early 1600's. ... Andrew Marvell wrote his poems in mid 1600's. ... In "To His Coy Mistress" written by Andrew Marvell, the topic about making love is more serious. ... Donne's poetry does not have much in difference either except for the tone, but Marvell also uses different poetic terms in his. ...

  • Word Count: 1906
  • Approx Pages: 8
  • Grade Level: High School

8. The War Against Time

We want to live righteously so that we can, "As men pass mildly away" (Donne, 398.1). ... As said by poet John Donne "death can come at any time." ... According to Marvell "we should experience love, while the youthful hew sits on the skin like morning dew." ... After all, he is a "slave to fate, chance, kings and despite men" (Donne, 400.11). ...

  • Word Count: 654
  • Approx Pages: 3
  • Grade Level: High School

9. Poetry - Romantic, Sexual, and Religious Love

The Cavalier poets, John Donne, Sir John Suckling, Andrew Marvell, and Robert Suckling, claim that people must sacrifice some part of themselves so that they could experience love, whether it be romantic, sexual, or religious love. As described in "Holy Sonnet 14" by John Donne, a person must give up some part of themselves so that they could experience religious love. ... In the poem, the narrator says, "That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, 'and bend Your force, to breake, blowe, burn and make me new" (Donne 3-4). ... He says: Take mee to you, imprison ...

  • Word Count: 1126
  • Approx Pages: 5
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: High School

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