"Seize the day." In To His Coy Mistress, Marvell creates a timeless land of paradise and contrasts it to the harsh realities of the real world. If there were enough time, the speaker would continue on court his mistress forever, but time is disappearing fast, so they must take advantage of the moments they currently have and express their love for one another before death comes to claim them; there is no time to be coy. Through allusion, metaphor, and imagery Marvell successfully conveys his theme of time and seduction.
             In the first stanza the speaker is basically telling his mistress to live and love, because time is short and life is passing. Centuries seem to pass by in minutes for the speaker; why else would one devote "an hundred yearsâ€to praise thine eyesâ€" and "two hundred to adore each breastâ€"? These hyperboles greatly exaggerate time for greater effect in the speaker's love for the mistress, saying that he would "love [her] ten years before the Floodâ€till the conversion of the Jewsâ€". "My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow." These lines express how the narrator wants his love to grow. love that takes root and grows over time , like a vegetable.
             In second stanza, the reader is woken up from this illusion and comes into the real world. "We would sit down, and think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day" paints a peaceful scenery that is free of the pressures of age and life. The speaker gives a vision into the future, which leads into nothing but dust after the worms have done their work.. The speaker warns his mistress of not ever having loved before facing death, picturing their graves where they will turn to dust and that his lust would turn into ashes. The eternity that had earlier been offered to his mistress now becomes a vast enormous desert. Love songs do not last forever but just diminish into an echo.
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