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Compare how the authors of two texts you have studied present love as…
Compare how the authors of two texts you have studied present love as being unobtainable
His coy mistress
Carpe Diem:
The poem is classed as "carpe diem", meaning in Latin "seize the day".
In this case, the carpe diem philosophy finds expression in urging a woman to enjoy life before death takes her.
"Did we buy enough time?"
This contrasts from Gatsby as his love did not have much time because of his low social status & when he did get a high name it was too late.
"Thy beauty shall no more be found"
The way the speaker compliments her beauty links to Daisy who represents a beautiful young woman. "Her dress rippling and fluttering"
She is presented as a fashionable flapper who links with society's expectations in the 1920s.
"Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay"
Gatsby tries to impress Daisy through wealth & materialistic objects which contrast from the speaker in the poem who wants to give love.
"Long preserved virginity"
This portrays virginity as not being important which links to Myrtle being Tom's mistress.
"Toms the first sweety she ever had" this could imply that they have had a sexual relationship as "sweety" suggests pleasure. The movement of the sweet in the mouth is phallic imagery for lust.
Throughout the poem the metre alternates between iambic pentameter and iambic tetrameter, i.e. between five iambic feet and four iambic feet. The first line of the stanza is in tetrameter. followed by a line in pentameter. This alternation continues until the end of the stanza. which closes with the tercet. composed of one tetrameter and two lines of pentameter.
The Flea
"The Flea' is a metaphysical seduction poem in which the speaker tries to convince a woman to sleep with him, using the rather grotesque image of a flea sucking both their blood to persuade her that she has as good as done so already. The poem's argument is based on the Renaissance belief that during sex the blood of the two partners mingled.
Throughout the poem the metre alternates between iambic pentameter and iambic tetrameter, i.e. between five iambic feet and four iambic feet. The first line of the stanza is in tetrameter. followed by a line in pentameter. This alternation continues until the end of the stanza. which closes with the tercet. composed of one tetrameter and two lines of pentameter.
"The Flea" presents a metaphysical love and it is the pursuit of the sexual needs of a male.
In "the flea" the writer presents a hedonistic lifestyle for the male
"The flea" arguably presents forbidden love "through parents’ grudge" similarly:
Fitzgerald presents Tom and Myrtle's love as being forbidden.
Fitzgerald also presents Gatsby and Daisy's love as being forbidden and this is shown from the barriers that arise between them.
The writer of "the flea" presents a different type of woman to Myrtle as she is a virgin whereas Myrtle is an experienced woman.
But in "Gatsby", Myrtle pursues a hedonistic lifestyle of the American dream and Fitzgerald shows the reader how she uses Tom for it as he says "buy ten more dogs"
Myrtle uses Tom because he presents the extravagance of the American Dream.
The speaker in "the flea" appears to want to use the woman to satisfy his own needs "a sin, nor shame, no loss of maidenhead”
The speaker is arguing that there is nothing wrong with having sexual intimacy
Similarly, Tom does not care if he uses women for sexual purposes.
The writer of "the flea" uses a conceit which is an image that supports an argument.
The speaker uses the image of "the flea" to show the woman that they have undergone a natural marriage "marriage bed"that links to Tom and Myrtle and how Daisy will not divorce Tom because she is Catholic.
In both "the flea" and "The Great Gatsby" the women lose as Tom and the speaker will not lose their status because of their gender.