The speaker of "To His Coy Lover" is a man with a high libido who turns to a reluctant woman who is protecting his virginity. Marvell uses figures of speech to unify his theme of Carpe Diem, to seize the moment, so that the speaker can seduce the woman. The first stanza of the poem means that his love is as eternal as time. In the second room, however, he realizes that time is of the essence and that the woman must give in to his desires. In the third stanza the speaker brings the woman back from imaginative death and explains to her that she must seize the opportunity since she is young. In "To His Coy Mistress", the character talks about his high libido and the Carpe Diem theme where the "Coy Mistress" should sleep with him and seize the day. At the beginning the speaker uses hyperbole when he tells the woman that he will love her until Armageddon when he states: “I would love you ten years before the flood/ and you should, if you will, refuse/ until the conversion of the Jews” (Marvell lines 7-10). This shows that he is patient and will wait for her to give in to his sexual desires. He exaggerates when he explains that he has until the end of time for the woman to make her decision. The speaker even alludes to the Bible, referring to the conversion of the Jews during Armageddon. This is used as irony because the Mistress wants to preserve her virginity, but by using a biblical reference she is trying to seduce her into losing her sanctified virginity. Marvell also expresses the speaker's patience when he writes, "We sat and thought which way / to walk, and passed our long day of love / You by the side of the Indian Ganges" (3-5). He suggests that the woman might wait for him if she remained young, which is a contrast... a means of paper... the character, a young man, to a demure lover who has denied his sexual needs. . The character tries hard to seduce the woman by expressing his thoughts about youth and impending death. The first stanza of the poem shows that the speaker is tolerant and awaits the response of the Mistress for sex. The Mistress, as she discovers, is a difficult woman to conquer, because she holds her virginity sacred. The person draws extreme notions, when she is dead the only purpose of her virginity is food for worms and draws attention through the graphic image of her death. The speaker embodies the Carpe Diem theme and tries to impose his ideas on her so he can have sex with her. Works Cited Marvel, Andrew. "To his demure lover." Portable Legacies; Fiction, poetry, theatre, non-fiction. Ed.Jan Zlotnik Schmidt and Lynne Crockett. Wadsworth Cengage Learning: Boston 2009. 670-671. Press.