Reading To His Coy Mistress | Alexandria
Read To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell. Seizing time's tyranny, a 17th-century love poem reveals our deepest fear: mortality cuts desire short. Marvell brilliantly flips this dread into fuel for passion, arguing that death's deadline makes pleasure more urgent, not less meaningful. His counterintuitive twist? Life's brevity heightens - rather than diminishes - its beauty and intensity.