Similarities between modern and old poems, there was still the idea of men only wanting women for sex within the pre 19th century poems even though in those time such actions were thought upon as disastrous and people today are more lenient. You may also have not expected it because most women are married at this time and it was unheard of to make advances to married women. In both the pre 19th century and today there was a suggestion of prostitution. The idea that even in the pre 19th century era women could have the upper hand over men. In the 20th century the poem "Our Love Now" the women has the upper hand as she ends the relationship making the first move, like the two pre 19th century the beggar women she has the upper hand as her morals overcome the gentleman's ignorance of disregarding the consequences of sex as something to think about he is them left holding the baby. There is the idea of the man essentially begging the women to sleep with him, the women still denying him showing the women to be the stronger sex within "To His Coy Mistress".…
