Similarities Between Romeo And Juliet And The Poems

How do the playwright and the poets you have studied explore the negative aspects of love?
In ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and the poems ‘To His Coy Mistress’, ‘Porphyria’s Lover’, ‘Cousin Kate’ and ‘They Did Not Expect This’, the relationships between the protagonists are arguably presented in a highly negative way, revealing the pain rather than the pleasure of love. A comparison of these texts will reveal the links between them and the ways in which the various writers portray the more damaging aspect of love.
In ‘Romeo and Juliet’, the way in which Romeo objectives Juliet is a clear aspect within their relationship. ‘Juliet is the sun’ and a ‘bright angel’ rather than a real life women with feelings and opinions. Romeo views Juliet as an unearthly, angelic creature with no other purpose than to use her ‘beauty’ to please himself, questioning the sincerity of his feelings. This
The way in which the Lord wore her ‘like a silken knot’ and changed her ‘like a glove’ shows his lack of interest for her as a person and that his only interest is in using her for sexual intentions and then to ‘change’ her when he sees fit. This attitude that women’s purpose is merely to be used as an object by men is also demonstrated in ‘Porphyria’s Lover’. The narrator of the monologue refers to his lover Porphyria as an ethereal women with ‘yellow hair’ and ‘pale skin’ who ‘glided’ rather than walked. This is much like the ‘bright angel’ that Romeo described and once again shows how men objectify women and view them as unearthly and inhuman creatures rather than real