Discuss the Relationship Between Love and Death in "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell, "The Sick Rose" by William Blake and "Remember" by Christina Rossetti.

... Discuss the Relationship Between Love and Death in "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell, "The Sick Rose" by William Blake and "Remember" by Christina Rossetti I have been studying the poems "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell, "The Sick Rose" by William Blake and "Remember" by Christina Rossetti. Each of the poets belonged to a different school of poetry: Blake and Rossetti belonged to the Romantics whereas Marvell belonged to the Metaphysicals. The Romantics were six English poets: William Blake, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Shelley and John Keats. They wrote from 1789 to 1824, and they loved nature and believed love, emotions, passion and human relationships were paramount to everything else including God and religion. They also wrote about the pathos of love - which would usually include the death of a lover. The Metaphysicals were the poets John Donne, Andrew Marvell, Henry Vaughan and

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