Week One questions

4. Compare/Contrast the two versions of “True Love.” Szymborska’s “True Love” in my way is that the speaker has been passed-up by love and it is making her life sound bitter. She questions the existence of true love. When the speaker addresses the happy couple, she has doubts that the couple’s actions are nothing but a show off. The reader scrutinizes the happiness and effects of people in love and has a negative attitude for it. Non-believers can believe whatever they want to believe and not have any negative feedback towards it. The speaker also speaks the words of a person so consumed with love. She sees love everywhere and around her are reflections of happiness and love. Although the two are both poems of love, the differences are shown when two different people has found true love (Sharon’s True Love) while the other is still questioning the existence of true love (Szymborska’s True Love).





5. Compare “To His Importunate Mistress” to Andrew Marvell’s famed “To His Coy Mistress”. What kind of statement do you think De Vries is making about Marvell’s classic? You could tell that Devries is mocking Marvell completely. The first two lines would clearly describe the coying was a crime; that even creditors have haunted him because the coying has been too costly for them. His love for the mistress is more like impressing her than himself. The irony is when he was having trouble with his finances to support their getaway; so the mistress ended leaving him without showing any kind of feelings and/or emotions. Devries’ poem also shows that there is a winner and a loser in any and every situation. For example, money talks in every aspect of life. In Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress,” this was more of a man looking for an eternal love for the mistress. Marvell’s is more on true love rather than just a fling. These two poems talks about the mistress, the different kinds of love, the lessons learned of having to play around or having a fling and what true love should be.