The Poets Treatment of Seduction in To His Coy Mistress...

The Poets Treatment of Seduction in To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell and The Passionate Shepherd To His Love by Christopher Marlowe Andrew Marvell the writer of To His Coy Mistress was an English poet and satirist. He was born in Winestead, Yorkshire, and went to Hull Grammar School and the University of Cambridge. He was once a member of parliament in 1659. It was possible that he got married to Mary Palmer but it remains in doubt. Other well-known and much-anthologised poems he wrote are: The Garden, The Definition of Love, and Bermudas. Christopher Marlowe was around just under thirty years before Andrew Marvell. Marlowe was also an English poet and also a playwright. He was†¦show more content†¦The man seems to get a bit violent by the end of the poem. The poem I am comparing with To His Coy Mistress is The Passionate Shepherd To His Love by Christopher Marlowe. This poem is about a shepherd who is trying to convince his love to come live with him. My first impressions of this poem is that the shepherd cares a lot for his love and only wants to be with her, so he is going out of his way - offering her lots of precious gifts - to try and convince her to live with him. In the poem To His Coy Mistress the man tries to seduce his mistress by saying things like being shy is a crime, This coyness, lady, were no crime. She losing her looks and shes not getting any prettier, Thy beauty shall no more be found; and then resorts to saying if she doesnt lose her virginity soon, she will die a virgin and the worms will take her virginity from her in her coffin, à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã‚ ¦worms shall try that long served virginity: - this comes across as a bit of a threat, which indicates he is getting impatient and violent. In the poem The Passionate Shepherd to His Love Christopher Marlowe treats seduction in a completely different way than Andrew Marvell does in To His Coy Mistress. In The Passionate Shepherd to His Love the shepherd tries to seduce his love by offering to make her many wonderful things, Will I make thee