Coy Mistress

This poem is about a longing for a women who continually rejects her admirers' love. The speaker is persistent, insisting that she be his. "My vegetable love should grow/Vaster than empires, and more slow" (Marvell 11-12). The speaker's love grows more and more over time and almost seems to threaten her that if she doesn't return his love, her fate would be death. This poem was a bit hard to understand and I still don't think I understand it completely. Compared to "Porphyria's Lover", this poem isn't quite as dark, although it still seems to be about obsession.