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Andrew Marvell’s theme in, “To His Coy Mistress.”
Many have mistaken “To His Coy Mistress” to be a typical love poem, or even a poem about fornication, but if one looks deeper than that they can see that it is not at all about these things, but of time and inevitable death that comes after the time that is given. A literary journal titled "Archetypal Elements In Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress” by Ali Abduljalil Mahdi, gives a thorough summary to its readers that helps them to understand Marvell’s intense poem “To His Coy Mistress.”

The first line of the poem opens with, “Had we but world enough and time...” paraphrasing the opening to be, if in fact they had all the time in the world. This implies that they however do not have all the time in the world, and in order to understand what they do not have enough time for is deeper within the story.

Each individual line of the poem unveils something deeper, and we soon learn that the narrator does not in fact have enough time to woo this woman, because of times hastened pace to take what it has given; revealing the poems profound motif, the protest against time and the death that comes after it.