To His Coy Mistress

TO HIS COY MISTRESS by Andrew Marvell

Andrew Marvell is proposing what would be possible in terms of life, love and death. Marvell gives his opinion on love and the things that he and his mistress could have done if they had been given more time to live. He seems to be trying to make his mistress understand that the love that he has for her will last for all eternity and that she will always have his heart. Marvell uses symbolism when he states  "For, lady, you deserve this state, Nor would I love at a lower rate," to mean that his love for her will never diminish and nothing in life could ever top it. He expresses that time is coming to an end and he wants his mistress to know of his love when he uses the phrase, "But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near." And when Marvell states, "And while thy willing souls transpires," he is expressing that death has come to take him and his mistress away, and this is just the beginning of the love that they share moving on to a new life as they pass through the iron gates symbolizing life after death. Marvell' poem is very convincing because it really makes one believe that above all else he loved his COY MISTRESS from the crown of his head to the sole of his feet.