Something I was thinking about for the reading this week was how the message of “To His Coy Mistress” parallels Shakespeare’s sonnets, especially the line, “The grave’s a fine and private place / But none, I think, do there, embrace.” Marvell seems to be urging the person he addresses in the poem to have sex with him because “they are young and alive” and there is time to be chaste when they are dead. This very much reminds me of the sentiments of the first 17 sonnets, which urge the young man to procreate.