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How far are John Donne's 'The Flea' and 'The Message', Andrew Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress' and Shakespeare's sonnets 'XVIII' and 'CXXX' anti-love poems?
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... How far are John Donne's 'The Flea' and 'The Message', Andrew Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress' and Shakespeare's sonnets 'XVIII' and 'CXXX' anti-love poems? Each of the poems/sonnets are to an extent anti-love, but each of them is anti different types of love. 'To His Coy Mistress' and 'The Flea' are against 'romantic love' but are definitely for 'physical love'. Each poem is about a man trying to 'woo' a woman who has a social vow not to have sex. In this time period (17th Century) when the poem was written, sex was believed to be a "mingling of their bloods". Therefore, the analogy with this flea is that it has 'mingled their bloods'; and, in a second, one what the woman did not dare to do. On the other hand, a sonnet like 'XVIII' is more anti 'physical love' but a lot more for 'romantic love'. I am going to
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