Compare the way Andrew Marvell and William King present relationships :: English Literature

Compare the way Andrew Marvell and William King present relationships amongst men and women in To His overmodest Mistress and The Beggar Women.If we look at the 2 poems we can see some quite a significantsimilarities mingled with them about the relationships between men andwomen. We see in both poems the thirst for sex from the two men, butboth attempt to acquire it by different methods due to thedifference in class between the women. first base we must look at the difference in forms of the two poems. To HisCoy Mistress is a dramatic monologue and so we can thereof see the bank clerks attitude towards the lady he is trying to seduce. TheBeggar Women is a ballad (so it is telling a story) this means thatyou can find a moral to the story however, you are unable to see theattitude of the gentlemen towards the women as easily.I both poems we see that neither of the men have more than respect for thewomen. In The Beggar Women we see that the gentlemen views the womenvery low which is maybe given the historical context of the poem. Inthe poem he refers to her as game, comparing her to the animals hewas hunting, almost saying that she isnt considered important adequateto be hu gay. It then says, her cheeks were fresh, and linen cleanwhich may suggest that the spotlight is not what it seems. In To HisCoy Mistress we also see the narrator has little respect for the ladyhowever in this poem it seems quite unnecessary because she is arespectable lady. He mocks her for being a thoroughgoing(a) - her quainthonour but in those times being stark(a) was the only way for a womento maintain a good reputation.In The Beggar Women the initial rhyming scheme is rhyming couplets.The pattern deteriorates as the beggar woman begins to take controlover the situation without the man realising. In To His Coy Mistress,if we look at the rhythm of the first 4 lines, it is in iambicquatrametre. This is a very powerful rhythm and may reflect just howhard the narrator is trying to seduce the women.In both poems there is also the obvious similarity of the mens mavindesire of sex and nothing else and how much they will do to procurethis. To His Coy Mistress shows the narrator taking a kind and warmapproach to getting the lady into bed with him in the first bring out ofthe poem (up to line 20). In this part he uses time as a positive