Ap English Poetry Comparative Essay
This a comparative analysis of poems 'To His Coy Mistress', 'Let's Misbehave' (actually is a song) and 'The Sunne Rising'. It was supposed to be 4 poems, but I'm pretty sure a paragraph went missing, so this is up for repairs.
English Comparative Essay.
The collection of texts presented in this essay depicts an underlying theme of love. The texts have been examined and explored in order to note the similarities or differences in various categories. To compare two texts by the length of their stanza would be to diminish the value of its words; indeed a comparison of texts must come from the connotation.
The subject of love is most definitely the most important and prominent theme in the four texts creating a likely similarity however, …show more content…
love, being an emotion can be exposed in diverse ways. To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell and Let's Misbehave by Cole Porter both expose love and lust. To His Coy Mistress starts by telling of an undying love for a lady " I would love you 10 years before the flood " how nothing could be as precious as her. The second stanza continues the love theme while adding a contrasting idea about preserving a girl's innocence is one thing but preserving them until they die is a waste. " The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace " Nonetheless, another statement is projected in the next stanza. If preserving until the grave is a waste then grasp the prize while it is still youthful and " let us roll all our strength, and all our sweetness, up into a ball: and tear our pleasure with rough strife "
To His Coy Mistress is somewhat similar to the previous text, opening with a lady so proper, focused on a career and no family. " you could have a great career, and you should " However not long into the text is another expression portrayed. For its time, (19th century) the text would be considered extremely bawdy. " we're all alone, no chaperone " The writer's instinct of lust takes over his expression of love and makes the poem quite lewd.
Similarly, Go from me.
Yet I feel that I shall stand... by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and The Sunne Rising by John Donne also convey a strong message of love. Conversely, they do not resemble the first two texts without the protruding theme of lust. They instead present a new idea about life and death. The poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning starts by describing a woman's love for a man who is leaving her. However, when reading the last two lines " God for myself, He hears that name of thine, and sees within my eyes the tears of two." it is observed that the lady is asking for God to take her rather than the gentleman. It is also interpreted that while the lady asks for God to take her instead of the man she loves, she is already dead; she cries one tear for him and one for herself.
The Sunne Rising by John Donne, another poem, possesses statements that suggest another type of love, the love of a man for his world. The poem starts of quite light-hearted, "Busy old fool, unruly sun through windows, and through curtains, call on us..." He is talking about the sun, Mother Earth. This is revealed in the line " She's all states and all princes I " But again, in the last few lines of the poem the words resemble death. The death of light over the earth as the sun
sets.
As a product of comparing these four texts it is to be concluded that without a doubt they show both similarities and differences. All of the texts conveying a strong feeling of love throughout their lines but the differences, subtle or obvious, are ever prevailing. He who has found an extreme difference is most likely to find and extreme similarity for the comparison between the two is the greatest contrast.
English Comparative Essay.
The collection of texts presented in this essay depicts an underlying theme of love. The texts have been examined and explored in order to note the similarities or differences in various categories. To compare two texts by the length of their stanza would be to diminish the value of its words; indeed a comparison of texts must come from the connotation.
The subject of love is most definitely the most important and prominent theme in the four texts creating a likely similarity however, …show more content…
love, being an emotion can be exposed in diverse ways. To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell and Let's Misbehave by Cole Porter both expose love and lust. To His Coy Mistress starts by telling of an undying love for a lady " I would love you 10 years before the flood " how nothing could be as precious as her. The second stanza continues the love theme while adding a contrasting idea about preserving a girl's innocence is one thing but preserving them until they die is a waste. " The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace " Nonetheless, another statement is projected in the next stanza. If preserving until the grave is a waste then grasp the prize while it is still youthful and " let us roll all our strength, and all our sweetness, up into a ball: and tear our pleasure with rough strife "
To His Coy Mistress is somewhat similar to the previous text, opening with a lady so proper, focused on a career and no family. " you could have a great career, and you should " However not long into the text is another expression portrayed. For its time, (19th century) the text would be considered extremely bawdy. " we're all alone, no chaperone " The writer's instinct of lust takes over his expression of love and makes the poem quite lewd.
Similarly, Go from me.
Yet I feel that I shall stand... by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and The Sunne Rising by John Donne also convey a strong message of love. Conversely, they do not resemble the first two texts without the protruding theme of lust. They instead present a new idea about life and death. The poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning starts by describing a woman's love for a man who is leaving her. However, when reading the last two lines " God for myself, He hears that name of thine, and sees within my eyes the tears of two." it is observed that the lady is asking for God to take her rather than the gentleman. It is also interpreted that while the lady asks for God to take her instead of the man she loves, she is already dead; she cries one tear for him and one for herself.
The Sunne Rising by John Donne, another poem, possesses statements that suggest another type of love, the love of a man for his world. The poem starts of quite light-hearted, "Busy old fool, unruly sun through windows, and through curtains, call on us..." He is talking about the sun, Mother Earth. This is revealed in the line " She's all states and all princes I " But again, in the last few lines of the poem the words resemble death. The death of light over the earth as the sun
sets.
As a product of comparing these four texts it is to be concluded that without a doubt they show both similarities and differences. All of the texts conveying a strong feeling of love throughout their lines but the differences, subtle or obvious, are ever prevailing. He who has found an extreme difference is most likely to find and extreme similarity for the comparison between the two is the greatest contrast.