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Romeo & Juliet | To His Coy Mistress »

Steph Jackson | Wednesday April 18, 2012

Categories: Drama, Romeo & Juliet, Poetry, Analysing Poetry, Marvel, To His Coy Mistress, Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Plays, Writing, Drama Analysis, Poetry Analysis, AQA GCSE, AQA GCSE English Literature A, AQA GCSE English Literature B, WJEC GCSE, WJEC GCSE English Literature

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Part 1 Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet | Part 2 Marvel’s To His Coy Mistress
Part 3 Browning’s Sonnet 43 | Part 4 Owen’s Futility
Part 5 Tennyson’s The Charge of the Light Brigade

Andrew Marvel’s To His Coy Mistress

Overview and Context

The poem might be viewed as a literary exercise in logic as much as a ‘love’ poem’. Marvell’s speaker uses a tripartite structure to follow his argument to its conclusion, effectively forming a ‘syllogism’.

This poem is also a prime example of the ‘sex-death’ juxtaposition...

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A Guide to Romeo and Juliet »

Steph Jackson | Wednesday April 18, 2012

Categories: Drama, Romeo & Juliet, Hot Entries, Poetry, Analysing Poetry, Browning, Sonnet 43, Marvel, To His Coy Mistress, Owen, Futility, Tennyson, The Charge of the Light Brigade, Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Plays, Writing, Drama Analysis, Poetry Analysis, AQA GCSE, AQA GCSE English Literature A, AQA GCSE English Literature B, WJEC GCSE, WJEC GCSE English Literature

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Part 1 Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet | Part 2 Marvel’s To His Coy Mistress
Part 3 Browning’s Sonnet 43 | Part 4 Owen’s Futility
Part 5 Tennyson’s The Charge of the Light Brigade

Love and Conflict

In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare explores several themes but perhaps the twin themes of love and conflict were uppermost in his mind when he conceived and wrote the play. At GCSE, the play is often used as part of a controlled assessment task in which students explore the presentation of one of these themes and compare it with...

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