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Compare and contrast the different attitudes to love in "To His Coy Mistress" and "Sonnet 116".
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... Neha Shah - 10EC/10P2 Compare and Contrast The Different Attitudes to Love In "To His Coy Mistress" and "Sonnet 116" The two poems "To His Coy Mistress" and "Sonnet 116" are written about the same subject, love and time. Both poets are similar and describe the theme as being very important; however from different perspectives. Marvell expresses love in a more corporal sense whereas Shakespeare describes love emotionally and mentally. He gives us an insight of what it means to him. The use of time is also an important subject matter in both poems. Throughout "To His Coy Mistress" the theme of time alters. We discover that in the first stanza there's a feeling of being threatened by time - "Nor, in thy marble vault...". In the last stanza Marvell describes time more logically and that time should be used more wisely. Evidence of this is when he states: "Rather at once our time
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