We've All Been There

In Andrew Marvell's To His coy Mistress, the speaker seems to be a lovesick man.  He shows that he cares for this woman very much, and she has been rather uninterested in his advances.  He opens by saying, "Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime," (Marvell, 803).  He says if they could live forever, he would admire her for just as long.  He then shows his fear or death, and how much he wishes life was not as short as it is.  He feels scared that they are wasting time being apart.  This leads to frustration because the woman is uninterested in the man's sexual advances.  He ends with his thoughts about death.  He fears that death is absolutely final, and that there will be no embraces after death.  This furthers his feeling of urgency.  This is a common fear for many people in the world.  They fear that their conscious soul will cease to exist with death.  In response to this, according to the man in the poem, people should not waste their time on earth, and instead use it to the very fullest.