Urgency and romance are two major themes that are found throughout Andrew Marvell's poem, "To His Coy Mistress". This effect is achieved through the liberal use of time, love, and rhythm to better convey what is being told. Without them, it wouldn't be able to communicate its message as clearly as it has.
             Probably the most obvious motif found throughout most of this poem is a sense of hurriedness. It is seen most prominently in the second and third stanzas, where time plays a major role in its progression. Though, time also shows up as a major character in the first stanza as well, where the speaker demonstrates what he would do with all the time in the world so to speak. This would allow him to adore his mistress -this is all we know her as- for all eternity, giving vast amounts of time to admire her beauty, "an age at least to every part". This may not directly give us a feeling of urgency, that is an obvious fact, but it does set the groundwork for the second and third stanzas. After being thrown into a fantasy land where clocks are stopped and time is of no value, you are suddenly thrown into the harshness of reality which is life. Suddenly the poem speeds up in rhythm, the lines become shorter, faster paced, and even the stanza seems to be cut short as compared to the first. The speaker describes how time is constantly at his back, hurrying him along, taking its toll and how there is nothing he can do in this world to stop it. Even with impending problem of time's wrath, the speaker does offer somewhat of a solution to the problem at hand. In the final stanza, he offers some what of a solution to the problem. Make sure you don't let time snatch this chance of yours, and don't let close your window of opportunity. The speaker goes on to tell his mistress that they must do all they can together while the still have the chance. In this stanza the phon
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