Lust and pleasure as a theme. To His Coy Mistress, The Lover A Ballad,

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Lust and pleasure as a theme. To His Coy Mistress, The Lover A Ballad,

The Passionate Shepherd

How have poets presented women and how are gender issues explained

Having studied a range of poems regarding gender issues and how women

are treated in society, I have chosen to focus on two main poems To

His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell and The Lover A Ballad by Lady Mary

Wortly Montagu. In addition to this I will deal with The Passionate

Shepherded to His Love by Christopher Marlowe and The Nymph’s Reply by

Sir Walter Raleigh. The Proud Layde by Spencer Wallace Cone. All

these poems explore women and gender issues in their own way. The

Lover A Ballad was written as a reply to the poem To His Coy Mistress.

Both these poem have connections of love and sexuality. To His Coy

Mistress is written in a way of persuading the girl to sleep with him.

The poet has written in such a way that people can think that women

don’t mean anything and they just want pleasure. Pleasure and lust are

also are aspects which include in the themes of this two poems. The

Lover A Ballad as a re...

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