Andrew Marvel To His Coy Mistress Meaning

In Andrew Marvell’s poem, “To His Coy Mistress” Marvell effectively used context and form extremely well. Some of the context that Marvell incorporated in his poem was the man who was the speaker, who was trying to persuade a shy women to make love to him. The shy woman, being the listener in the poem, did not accept the man’s love. Some of the form used by Marvell in his poem was the structure by having it in three Stanzas. Marvell used plenty of metaphors when describing the time that the speaker is willing to wait for his mistress. In “To His Coy Mistress” the main theme is, that the speaker is trying to convince a shy woman, the listener, into making love to him before time runs out. The speaker states, “But at my back I always hear Time’s