The Bible describes the Garden of Eden as a perfect, beautiful, and lush Earthly Paradise. Likewise, The Land of Cockaygne, a fourteenth-century poem, opens with a detailed account of a beautiful land with an abundance of food and without worry. The initial use of sensory detail within the text outlines Cockaygne to be an environment far greater than Eden. However, as the poem builds the lighthearted description of Cockaygne transitions to illustrate contempt of an order of monks and nuns due to their sexual encounters. Similar to The Land of Cockaygne, Swastika Nights by Katharine Burdenkin and Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman demonstrate unparalleled differences within their utopian societies compared to the conditions and norms of the
