Compare the way Andrew Marvell and William King present relationships :: English Literature

Compargon the way Andrew Marvell and William King present relationshipsbetween men and women in To His modest Mistress and The friar Women.If we forecast at the 2 poems we can gull some quite significantsimilarities between them about the relationships between men andwomen. We clear in both poems the trust for sex from the two men, butboth attempt to acquire it through different methods due to thedifference in class between the women.First we mustiness look at the difference in forms of the two poems. To HisCoy Mistress is a dramatic monologue and so we can therefore see thenarrators military posture towards the lady he is trying to seduce. TheBeggar Women is a ballad (so it is telling a story) this means thatyou can find a moral to the story however, you are unable to see theattitude of the gentlemen towards the women as easily.I both poems we see that neither of the men have such(prenominal) respect for thewomen. In The Beggar Women we see that the gentlemen views the women very low which is perhaps given the historical context of the poem. Inthe poem he refers to her as game, comparing her to the animals hewas hunting, almost dictum that she isnt considered important enoughto be human. It then says, her cheeks were fresh, and linen cleanwhich may suggest that the situation is not what it seems. In To HisCoy Mistress we also see the narrator has little respect for the ladyhowever in this poem it seems quite unnecessary because she is arespectable lady. He mocks her for being a stark(a) - her quainthonour but in those times being virginal was the only way for a womento maintain a good reputation.In The Beggar Women the initial rhyming scheme is rhyming couplets.The pattern deteriorates as the beggar woman begins to take controlover the situation without the man realising. In To His Coy Mistress,if we look at the rhythm of the first 4 lines, it is in iambicquatrametre. This is a very powerful rhythm and may reflect just how voteless the narrator is try ing to seduce the women.In both poems there is also the obvious similarity of the mens onedesire of sex and nothing else and how much they will do to achievethis. To His Coy Mistress shows the narrator taking a kind and adoringapproach to getting the lady into bed with him in the first part ofthe poem (up to line 20). In this part he uses time as a positive