A woman’s beauty can disappear like a thief in the night, so make love to her before it is stolen away. In Andrew Marvell’s Poem “To his Coy Mistress” the speaker argues that lovers must ignore all courtship rules and make love now, rather than wait until they lose all of their youth and beauty and death comes to them both. In this poem, the lover is pouring his heart to his lady. He lists how and why they should make love to each other. He does not understand why she is so coy and evasive to his pleading for them to make love. He wants her to realize that her beauty will not be with her forever, yet if they make love now it will be pleasing to them both. Marvell uses allusions and imagery to reveal the speakers message of fleeting beauty and time necessitating immediate action. In the beginning of the poem the speaker states that if there was more time in the world, than her not giving into his demands would not be a crime. Yet, the more time they waste, the more of a crime it is. He states, “Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime” (Lines 1-2). Throughout the poem the speaker grows impatient with her coyness, yet still continues to pour his heart out to her. He knows that they have little time and in order to make the most of it she must submit to his request before her beauty fades. In the middle of the first stanza, Marvell exaggerates the speakers feelings toward his “coy mistress” by using a metaphor to compare his love to a vegetable; “My vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow” (Lines 11-12). The speaker also says, “For, Lady, you do not deserve this state Nor would I love at lower rate” (Lines 19-20). The speaker is telling her that he would take his time and love her as she should be loved, even though she is responding shyly to his advances. He promises that he would give her only the best of his love and nothing less if time were eternal. “But a