Scent_Of_A_Woman

Scent Of A Woman Scent of a Woman “Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce high for her too, Till she cry ‘Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!’”- Thomas Parke D’Invilliers From the beginning of time, men have attempted to solve a mystery the answer to which always seems to be just out of their grasp: The Woman. Working with her, or simply trying to “communicate,” with her can challenge even the most intelligent men. Following the elusive sent of a woman, men are constantly thrown off the circuitous trail that ultimately ends at the woman’s heart- - and the nearby bedroom. Many consider poetry a sort of road map to the desired destination. John Donne’s “The Flea,” Robert Herrick’s “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time,” and Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress,” all seem to have been written with one objective: to charm her into surrender. To ply her with sensual metaphors until she falls helplessly into his bed; but which poet’s strategy proves most effective' It is possible through careful analysis, exfoliation, and gathering of various opinions, to determine which poet displays the firmest grasp of the female psyche and the most scent, woman, speaker, time, lines, flea, poem, mistress, blood, women, while, lover, virgins, should, one, love, world, donne’s, coy, two, sense, marvell’s, make, however, herrick’s, before, argument, woman’s, through, strategy, stanza, sexual, sex, seems, opening, much, line