"The Anniversary" and "To His Coy Mistress": The Synchronicity of Pen and Life At first, there would appear to be little in common between a poem that attempts to persuade a mistress and one that commemorates an anniversary. Indeed, there are few sentiments that "The Anniversary" and "To His Coy Mistress" share. Yet, these are love poems and there must be some common ground that unites them on some plane. There is, of course, such a common point of reference and it lies in the attitudes towards time that we find expressed in these poems. Marvell's conception of time is ever changing in "To His Coy Mistress," but t