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To His Coy Mistress And Bradstreet's Husband

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The vivid imagery in Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress” and Anne Bradstreet’s “To My Dear and Loving Husband” shows love in bloom, love languishing and love lost in two different ways. Bradstreet’s poem is from a wife to her husband about their love and how great it is in her eyes. It is more of a bragging and show off way to show their love. On the other hand, Marvell’s poem takes a more admiring tone to it.
When the speaker in Marvell’s poem compares his love to “vegetable love should grow” (Marvell 493) it is showing that the love he has for his lover will always grow and he intends to feed onto that and be with her. This shows more of a platonic love and how he is in love with her and he is chasing after her, yet it mentions mothing about her loving or wanting to be with him so there is no way of telling how she felt for him. In Bradstreet’s poem the wife refers to her love as something that “rivers cannot quench” (Bradstreet 719) and speaks of their love very highly. The wife is very much in love with her husband and has a desire to tell him just how much he means to her. She uses …show more content…

“To My Dear and Loving Husband” they want to “persevere” their love so they “will live forever” (Bradstreet 719) implying that she will refuse to ever lose their love. She wants them to love so much and hard in their relationship that it is enough for when they die as well. The romance in Anne Bradstreet’s poem is very apparent like the speaker and her lover’s love for one another. In Marvell’s poem the speaker says that “[t]he grave’s a fine and private place, [b]ut none , [he] think[s] do there embrace showing that when they die they have no way of loving and embracing each other as before. They won’t be able to talk or see each other and while a graveyard is a quiet place to have some time alone with someone, it isn’t the same if that person isn’t alive

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