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Essay Topic: An analysis of the ideological implication of Andrew Marvell’s poem, ‘To His Coy Mistress’, in respect to similar themes in William Shakespeare’s Sonnets ‘18’ and ‘73’. There is an uncomfortable shallowness of the contextual nature of Andrew Marvell’s poem, ‘To His Coy Mistress’ that in some way separates it from several of William Shakespeare’s sonnets. There is however, a statement made by Marvell that overcomes its unfortunate contextual nature and which uses certain myths concerning love and time that are also manifest in Shakespeare’s Sonnets ‘18’ and ‘73’. The overriding connotations manifest in Sonnets ‘18’ and ‘73’ include; the mythical nature of eternal love experienced by mortal lovers (Sonnet ‘18’), and the reality of time as a bringer of death (Sonnet ‘73’). These implications are used by Marvell in ‘To His Coy Mistress’ to effectively create an interesting theory on life and how it should be lived. ‘To His Coy Mistress’ is divided into three separate sections in which a man is obviously talking to a woman. The first two parts of the poem provide descriptions of two separate worlds of opposition, creating a rather disorientating reacti