Presentation by Comparison Between "The Flea & To His Coy Sem -1

1. Name : Asari Bhavayang
Roll no :-4
Enrollment No:-3069206420200002
Course:-M.A (English)Sem1
Subject:-Literature of the Elizabethan & Restoration period(22392)
Topic:-comparison between “The Flea”& To his Coy mistress
Teacher Name :- Dilip Barad sir
Batch :- 2021-2023
Email :- asaribhavyang7874@gmail.com
Department:- Department of English

2. ● He was born at 22 January 1572 and died :-31
march 1631.
● He was an English poet, scholar, soldier and
secretary born into a recusant family, who became a
cleric in the church of England.
● His poetical works are noted for their metaphorical
and sensual style and include sonnets,love poems,
religious poems , Latin translations, epigrams, song
and satires.
● He is also known for his sermons.
John Donne:-

4. ● He was born at 31 March 1621.
● He was died in 16 august 1678.
● He was an English Metaphysical poet, satirist and
politician.
● The poem also reflects the tradition of the erotic blazon,
in which a poet constructs elaborate images of his lovers
beauty by carving her body into parts.
Andrew Marvell :-

6. A Comparison of “The Flea”&“To his Coy
Mistress ”
● The poems “”The Flea”by John Donne and “To His Coy
Mistress”by Andrew Marvell.
● They both written with the same idea in mind , for the
authors to get their ‘’women’ or mistresses to be less shy
with them.
● When pretty woman was to find herself interacting with a
man , it was conventional for her to be shy or unwilling, or at
least for a small time at first.
● With this in mind it is easy to see that both poems include
the idea of the time we have and do not let it go to waste.

7. ● The most obvious comparison of argument is what the persona
is trying to get from his mistress, it is clear that all that the
persona has on his mind in “The Flea ”is about physical
relations yet in “To His Coy Mistress”the persona is more
interested in love in general not just physical relation.
● There is also a sense of desperation in “The Flea”because the
persona knows that if the flea is squashed that his chances of
having physical relation with his mistress are also squashed.
As well as the sense of desperation in “The Flea”is also very
humorous.
● It satirises how the persona cannot get his mistress to have
physical relation with her but she is willing to give up her
virginity to something as insignificant as a flea.

8. ● “The Flea” is that the flea, an insignificant object, bit his
mistress after biting him, therefore mixing their two bloods
together.
● Donne’s time was considered as forming a bond, the mixing
of their bloods bonded the couple together almost like
marriage :
“It suck’d me first , and now sucks thee ,
and in this flea, our two bloods mingled be;”
● The persona in “To His Coy Mistress” shows a sense of
irritation that his mistress is so coy.

9. Comparison between The Flea and To his Coy Mistress
The Flea
1. It was written by John Donne.
2. Poet has used Erotic felling.
3. He is trying to convince her
beloved to do intercourse
4. Element used in poem :-
● Marriage bed
● Marriage temple
1. He has frustration because
the flea bit her beloved.
To his Coy Mistress
1. It was written by Andrew Marvell
2.Poet has used wit.
3.He is trying to convince his Mistress
for love making.
4.Element used in poem :-
● Ganga time’s winged hariot
● Rubies Desert of vasteterniety
● Humber Marble vault
● Flood Worms
● Tide Dust
● Empires Iron gates
● Time sun
5. He has frustration because her mistress is shy

10. Reference :-
1. "John Donne". En.M.Wikipedia.Org, 2021,
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Donne.
2. "Andrew Marvell". En.Wikipedia.Org, 2021,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Marvell.
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