Theme of "To His Coy Mistress"

The theme in this poem is all about sex. It is written by a man for another man to woo a woman into his bed. He tells her how much he loves her and how long he will. She is resistant to give up her virginity so easily so he tells her he will love her"ten years before the Flood," (783). He compares his love to a garden that will grow "Vaster than empires, and more slow." Everything a woman wants to hear from a man she is willing to give up the one thing she can never get back and is a passing from girl to woman. He tells her that they don't have forever, that if she doesn't give her virginity to him, then she when she dies the worms will have their way with her body. That the grave they put her in, will be cold and hard whereas his arms are warm and comfortable. The poem ends with his still trying very hard to persuade.