The poem begins and seems to have the speaker professing his love to this woman, however, right at the beginning he starts by saying, “Had we but world enough, and time…” This statement makes all of what he says no matter how beautiful or great the things he says or will do it is only if he had the time therefore he is taking everything back before it is given. The title, which is an apostrophe, even shows the reader insight to what the poem is going to consist of because the mistress is said to be "coy," that is, strategically withholding like playing hard to get which is what the archaic meaning is, however now it is referred to as one who is shy. The poem is written in couplets probably in order to show

Andrew Marvell’s poem “To His Coy Mistress” makes an excellent example of a piece using symbols and archetypes to portray its message. The use of the symbols in poetry greatly impacts the poem or other literary works also, by giving the composition several degrees of perception. This ability to make the reader interpret a piece indirectly by using symbols and archetypes is what makes poetry entertain and powerfully meaning to the reader.

that it is about the couple, speaker and mistress, like some many of the traditional love poems are but this poem is not making the use of the traditional style paradoxical. The second line of the poem which reads, “This coyness, lady, were no crime…” is saying that she is committing a crime in his eyes by not falling for him and playing hard to get in result wasting his time. The speaker tries to glorify the love they would share together by setting an exotic location such as the “Indian Ganges” where one can find marvelous treasures like “rubies.” By creating this alluring atmosphere, he makes his life with his lady a day in luxury, trying to entice her to given in to his thought charming ways. Marvell then uses a biblical allusion that overstates his love for her in lines eight through ten, “loved you ten years before the Flood, and you should, if you please, refuse till the conversion of the Jew.” This hyperbole of his affection shows the time that he will love her, which it is a long time, more than realistically possible in a life span, from the great flood to the conversion of the Jews. The next lines state, “My vegetable love should grow vaster th

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