"The poems One Flesh and To His Coy Mistress share the themes of time and separation. Explore how the poets develop these themes in different ways."

Help: What do the poems tell you about:

 why people are sometimes separated;

 the effects that separation can have on people;

 the language that is used to express separation;

 the effects time has on people;

 writers' use of language to discuss time.

____________________

The two poems not only share the themes of time and separation but also love and passion too. Yet in many ways the poems are worlds apart, not only in terms of when they were written (some 400 years apart) but in their perspectives. This is not surprising being that One Flesh was written by a female and To His Coy Mistress by a male. It is interesting that the themes of time and separation (as well as love...