To his coy Mistress

                                       To His coy mistress

The poem ‘ To his coy mistress’ is written by Andrew Marvell. Who was the son of clergyman. He was a metaphysical poem and he most of the poet focuses more on love and God, this poem ‘To his Coy Mistress’ is also about love and shyness of the be love.

The poet starts with the coyness of beloved saying that if both the lover had enough time beloved coyness was no crime but hence beloved is so shy that her shyness is like a crime her shyness has become a crime because they have very less time left and if they have enough time they could think over how to pass their ‘ long love’s day’.

In the next few lines the poet refers about ‘Indian Ganges and Humber which is in England through this poet want to say that when ever both the lover meet some where there was always a distance because of beloved coyness and a refusal to give her self to him stays long and ‘till the conversation of the Jews’ her refusal to surrender her self.

The poet starts next lines by comparing his love to vegetable. His love is like a vegetable which grows day by day vaster then empires then poet starts praising each poet of beloved’s body she was so beautiful and adorable that the lover would happily passed 100 years to prais beloved eyes and also gazing on the forehead of the beloved. He would spent two hundred years to prais his beloved’s each breast still he requires thirty thousand years to praise rest of the part of her body and when death was about to come the beloved might leave her coyness and show her love.

Beloved is indeed shy but whatever lover said regarding the years to prays s out of pure love. More then that belove deserves this typ of love and poet says that he would not love her lower then this his love should always vaster then empire there fore the poet says,

  ‘for lady, you deserve this satste nor would I love at lower rate’.

Next line refer to the short time which is passing poet hears sound of “times winged chariot” which is hurrying near which mean the time is passing very fast.

In the next line the poet explains what would happen if the beloved dies without having physical relation with the lover.

If the beloved shall continue her coyness like these then one day when the date will arrive her beauty will be not more as well as the echoing song also wond be then once she is dead. The beloved is not coy and threr for she is not allowing the lover come close to her and there for poet says once she is dead the worms will eat her long preserved virginity and there for before it happens she should have physical relation with the lover because after the death if they wont have physical relation the lust of the lover will tern into ashes there for beloved should stop be very shy.

Then the poet compares youth with ‘Morning dew’. The way morning dew drops on the skill and goes out of that within few time in the same way youth also stays for a while only and there for before the lovers get pray by the time or by the society lover wants his beloved to surrender her self and enjoy to gather.

In the last line the the poet uses two line in the end of the poem that are

                ‘ Thus through we can not make our sun,

                    Stand still, yet we will make him run’.

Here the poet says it is not in over hend to stop the sun but if we can’t stop it we have to change with the time which means before the time graps them in to it’s clutches. She should stop being shy and with. All her willingness she should enjoyed the plasuers or being to gather further the poet says it takes a lot to passed the journey of life as it is defeecult but with the time they have they should collect sweetness they should strive hard to be to gather.