“But at my back I always hear time’s winged chariot hurrying hear;” (Marvell 804). Time is the problem in this poem. The mistress’s coyness would not affect the man if it were not for time. He would spend all of eternity studying her. He would spend from the flood to Jesus 2000 years trying to woo her. She could refuse him millions of times over ad he would still chase her. His love would grow only stronger over time weather she would accept him or not. Time stand in his way though. Because of time he does not have from the flood to the conversion of the Jews to wait for her. Because of time he must her beauty will fade and his love will stop praising her. His love would be stopped by death before he would stop loving her but his live time would not be enough time to woo her.
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