Time Tarries Only For Those Who Use It
Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress":
Time tarries only for those who use it
Had we but world enough, and time, humankind could give Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" the age that it deserves. We would not hurry through, but pour over it at it's deserving rate. But, Time's winged chariot is so close behind, we can give only a fraction of the time it deserves. The speaker in "To His Coy Mistress" reasons with his mistress for consummation of their love. Yet, the speaker does not struggle out of pure lust. He argues for life, for victory over the temporality of this existence. "To His Coy Mistress" is more than persuasion to be intimate, it is also Marvell's battle to overcome humankind's finite life.
Marvell's speaker uses the first stanza of the poem to demonstrate all that his love could
do with the time that he does not have. The speaker does not lack the passion of other lovers, merely the patience. "Had we but world enough ,and time"(1), then, the speaker would......
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