Compare His Coy Mistress And In Paris With You

Comparing: In Paris with You; His Coy Mistress

Both poems are about love - love that has been lost, damaged and tainted. In Paris with You is the bitter tale of a man who tries to move on from a lover that has left the man broken, biting and bleak, his poem is a woeful tale of the breakdown of what was clearly a precious relationship that had soured over time leading the man into a spiral of distress and Paris. The title itself suggests his biting personality In Paris with You - when you initially read it ideas of romance and love fill your mind but upon reading the poem all these thoughts go out the window and you realise the narrator's vexation towards this person and the negative connotations they carry from the narrator's point of
However this does not hinder his 'love' for her as he calls it a "vegetable love" that "should grow" which implicates themes of a natural, healthy love that is fresh and genuine, a love that is "vaster than empires" invoking thoughts of power and might - influential even. Opposing His Coy Mistress is In Paris with You the narrator treats the women like a slave someone who he sees as an object to distract himself from the woman who "bamboozled" him, he uses nautical imagery such as "hostage" and "marooned" to describe his situation which suggests his feeling of confinement and restriction and why he may not want to go sightseeing in Paris because he wants to stay hidden away from the harsh sunlight and cruel world staying secluded in his own private island of misery with only his new 'lover' to keep him