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Comparison of Andrew Marvell’s ‘To His Coy Mistress’ and John Donne’s ‘The Sun Rising’ These poems are both on the view of romance, but as you will read they both have very different opinions. The poems include an argument within themselves. The poem 'To His Coy Mistress' begins with an initial thought, then introduces a qualification to the thought, and ends with a resolution to the conflict. In addition, Marvell manages to combine …

…intensity of emotion is not a place where rational reasoning and logical argument usually reside. The poems have argument consisting of the main body of he poem, whereas the intense imagery and emotion is conveyed through the language that is used. Language in all the poems is simple and usually direct, and the verse is occasionally rough, like speech, rather than written in a concise, smooth manner, resulting in a dominance of thought over form.