To His Coy Mistress

To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell, it’s a rollercoaster of emotions that starts with a slow romantic tone and then it takes a drastic change of emotions. It goes from a soft and romantic tone to a crude and strong one. It is a beautiful story that makes us realize how human and feeble our existence really is, that no matter how powerful and mighty we think we are, we are nothing compare to time. Just as the great empires of our history everything crumbles with time and eventually becomes dust and evaporates into nothingness. Therefore, even if we live a great life and become rich and famous, even if we save the world from destruction eventually we will be forgotten and disappear in time. To His Coy Mistress thought me that it is important to live life to the fullest, that we need to enjoy ourselves while we are young, because for every second we waste it is a second that has been lost forever “Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie” Line 22 The story begins with a romantic tone in which the husband whom is also the narrator express to his wife how beautiful she is. The narrator expresses that if he had eternal life he would wait for her forever and use the time to admire her beauty while she accepts him, and finally consummate their relationship 1.“I would Love you ten years before the Flood, and you should, if you refuse Till the Conversion of the Jews.”. On the other hand, from the beginning of the story from lines 5 to 7 we understand the conflict between the wife and the husband, for each of them comes from a different world, she comes from India and he is from England. Therefore, at the beginning of the poem we can se how he tries to persuade her by telling her that their relationship is not a crime “Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, Lady, were no crime we would sit down and think which way to walk and pass our long love's day.” Line 1-4. It is a beautiful poem on which the narrator expresses the