Comparison of Shakespeare Poems

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In this essay, I will be showing a comparison between ‘Romeo and Juliet’ (Shakespeare), ‘To His Coy Mistress’ (Marvel) and ‘Sonnet 130’ (Also by Shakespeare). The first main comparison between these three texts is that they all show different types of love. ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is based on true love as both main characters fall in love with each other at first sight. Shakespeare shows their love by the soliloquy and the sonnet that he added to this text as the words and techniques used in them project a connection between Romeo and Juliet. ‘To His Coy Mistress’ shows an idea of a sexual and lustful love. This is because the narrator uses words to encourage sexual activity towards a woman. ‘Sonnet 130’ is also based on a true and realistic love. This is shown as the narrator writes about his realistic love between him and his lover. In this time in history, love was shown by a kiss on the cheek or on the hand. It was very strict then. In act one, scene five of ‘Romeo and Juliet’, the two lovers first meet and Romeo does a soliloquy to Juliet. Shakespeare uses Romeo to present love at first sight and religious love. There are many examples of love at first sight in the text. One example is “Did my heart love till now”. Romeo is falling in love with her at this point and he is flirting with her, which is leading him to kissing her. Romeo is also using religion in this example. He talks about kissing with lips touching and he is comparing that to a pair of hands joined together like somebody is praying. The religious use shows that Romeo and Juliet’s love is holy so it is pure. Therefore, it is true. Also, he is admiring her beauty which is another sign of true love and back in history when this was preformed as a play, men usually acted out women’s part as well as men’s as women weren’t allowed to act. After the soliloquy, Both Romeo and Juliet do a sonnet to each
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