To His Coy Mistress

                                                                             Andrew Marvell, England (1621 – 1678)
Summary in English

  "To His Coy Mistress" is divided into three stanza or poetic paragraphs. It is spoken by a nameless man, who does not reveal any physical or biographical details about himself to a nameless woman, who is also biographiless.
During the first stanza, the speaker tells the mistress that if they had more time and space, her coyness wouldn't be a crime. He extends this discussion by describing how much he would compliment her and admire her. He would focus on "each part" of her body until he got the heart (and 'heart' here is both a metaphor for sex and a metaphor for love).
In the second stanza he says, "We don't have the time, we are about to die!" He tells her that life is short, but death is forever. In a shocking moment, he warns her that when she's in the coffin, warms will try to take her "virginity" if she doesn't have sex with him before they die. If she refuses to have sex with him, there will be repercussion for him, too. All his sexual desire will born up to "ashes" for all the time.
In the third stanza he says, "I have told you what will happen when you die, so let's have sex while we're still young". Then, he wants to play a game. He suggests furthermore that they release all their pain and frustrations having the sex act and be free. In the final couplet, he calms down a little. He says that having sex can't make the "sun" stop moving. Whenever we have sex, we pursue time instead of time pursues us.
This poem is a metaphysical one since it combines the physical and spiritual love. The speaker (lover) tries his best to involve his beloved into sexual game. He even says that beauty, charm, virginity, power, youth can't be fresh forever because when we enter into the grave or die, all these things will be meaningless. Therefore, one has to have the experience of all these desires on time.