To Coy His Mistress

In the poem in my opinion was a very powerful show of emotion, lust, and love. I believed this is a story about a man obsessed with a young female who is very beautiful but seems reluctant to let herself accept his feelings for her. He starts the poem saying “Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime.” The woman is acting shy, but she is really playing hard to …

…pore transpires. At every pore with instant fires” He wants her to make up her mind about her feelings for him, while she is still young. Toward the end of the poem it appears to be more sexual then love. She begins to see his true intent which is mainly lust. He gives it one last desperate attempt by saying “Thus, though we cannot make our sun/ Stand still, yet we will make him run.”