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... How do Andrew Marvell and Elizabeth Barrett-Browning portray different attitudes towards love and relationships? Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" and Elizabeth Barrett-Browning's "Sonnets from the Portuguese (XLIII)" display very different attitudes towards love. This is displayed through their uses of different techniques and different tones. In "To His Coy Mistress," Marvell expresses a cynical and aggressive attitude towards love. He does this by structuring an argument intended to persuade his speaker's mistress to give up her virginity. This is in direct comparison to "Sonnets from the Portuguese" as in this poem, Barret-Browning writes about her undying love for her husband to be. She writes about all the reasons she loves him without any need for something in return. Andrew Marvell lived from 1621 - 1678 in a time when women would have needed to find a husband to support them as soon as possible. This is shown through his use of
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