Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress"

In Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress", the speaker challenges the coyness of a lady he is courting, and desires her to engage in carnal and youthful love with him rather than waiting for their love to develop slowly. The speaker emphasizes the need for rapid development of their relationship whilst "the youthful hue/ Sits on thy skin like morning dew" to take advantage of the invigoration of youth that transfers to the amorous and sensual relationships of the young. For the first half of the poem, the speaker proclaims the gradual development of their love if it were allowed to develop to eternity in an amorous tone. However, he makes a transition in the middle, claiming that the inevitable effects of time will wither her beauty and his lust for her. Thus, in the end, he makes a pragmatic argument in the end- to persuade her to engage in youthful love before time withers it away.