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Compare the ways poets present a speakers attitudes towards another person in
‘To His Coy Mistress’ and another poem
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In ‘To His
Coy Mistress’ we witness Marvell attempting to convince his mistress to seize the day
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The use of the word ‘hurrying’ symbolises how time is chasing them
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The use of realism for the mistress’s
‘beauty that shall no more be found’ in ‘thy marble vault’ is emphasising the speaker’s
need to persuade the mistress
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He continues to
describe how her ‘quaint honour turn to dust’ and ‘into ashes all my lust’ to show love
deteriorates
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Mew
represents time passing by using seasons, as the poem starts ‘three summers since’ and
sends ‘Christmas-time’ showing how their failed marriage goes on unchanged
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The colours used in this stanza
such as ‘brown’ and ‘grey’ reflect the atmosphere of their relationship as dull as it lacks
everything a real marriage should have
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This illustrates how as time passes
their relationship continues to decay like a leaf in autumn
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He carries on
to describe how time will catch up with her appearance to show time is running out as
the ‘youthful hue / sits on thy skin like morning dew’
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The speaker describes the
mistress’s soul to ‘transpire at every pore with instant fires’ which is speaking of their
feelings of desire
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Marvel describes the speaker and the
mistress as ‘amorous birds of prey’ that ‘devour’ giving a semantic field of consumption
to express his lust
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The vigorous, animalistic imagery in ‘To His Coy Mistress’ contrasts to the imagery in
‘The Farmer’s Bride’
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These descriptions give an undertone of vulnerability
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She is described as a mouse to underline
how she creeps around the house, as if she is trying to avoid her husband
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The
wife is full of distress as she ‘flies like a hare/ all in shiver and scare’ displaying her as
frightened, proving she is resistant to the relationship
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This proves the
farmer to be less forceful to his wife compared to the speaker in ‘To His Coy Mistress’
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The irregular rhyme schemes shows unpleasantness
which mirrors their failed marriage
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All the stanzas, apart from the last, end in a
couplet to emphasise the separation in their relationship
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‘To His Coy Mistress’ has a regular rhyme scheme in an iambic
pentameter, which contrasts to the underlying theme of life and death
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In ‘To His Coy Mistress’ we see Marvell present the speakers attitudes in a variety of
methods such as sinister imagery and syllogistic structure
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Both
poems effectively display how the speakers are aware of the time passing while their
desires are unfulfilled and how they both want to change their relationship, which is
carried out in different tones

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