Comparing Two Love Poems, Our Love Now and To His Coy Mistress

Comparing Two Love Poems, 'Our Love Now' and 'To His Coy Mistress'

Poetry has been around now for many decades, it is a form of writing

that can be expressed in many different forms of style, context and

language. The majority of poetry is love or war poetry, this is

because love and war have many different view points form every

individual person therefore no love or war poem can be the same due to

this emotion involved. I.e., in a love poem you are writing your own

personal feelings about or for a loved one, no other person can have

these exact feelings, it is a way of opening out your heart. In a war

poem you may write about a loved and lost one or you could write about

your own emotion towards the death and destruction of the war. Even

the buildup and aftermath of the war has been expressed in poems.

The two poems I am going to compare and contrast in this essay are,

'Our Love Now' and 'To His Coy Mistress'.

The two poems are both about love, a man trying to get a woman to love

him.

The poem 'Our Love Now' gives the impression that a couple have been

together for some time now and that a series of long term problems in

the relationship has caused the permanent break up of this couple, its

apparent that all these problems were caused by the male, as it seems

he is trying to win her back with his positive attitude, he's trying

to make her love him again.

"I said,

Observe the scab of the scald,

The red burnt flesh is ugly,

But it can be hidden.

In time it will disappear,

Such is our love, such is our love"

The line "The red burnt flesh is ugly" shows the pain caused by the

break up of this couple or maybe it could be the pain caused by an

argument or such a thing.

'Burnt fles...

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...stanza, his point of view changes, he is telling the

woman to rush into the relationship because they don't have forever,

where as before in the first stanza he was telling her that they had

forever, he would wait for her for eternity, she could taker her time.

But now in the second stanza he gives the impression,

'Take me now or go without.'

'Thy beauty shall no more be found'

This is another example of the fact the man wants her to rush into the

relationship, he is forwarding the impression that she is going to

grow old and her looks shall be lost, they must therefore act now or

never.

But on the last stanza the poet leaves on a positive note to try and

keep the woman seduced and overwhelmed,

'Let us roll al our strength and all

Our sweetness up into one ball,

And tear our pleasures with rough strife

Through the iron gates of life'.