Andrew Marvell and Description of Garden of Earthy Delights in his Poems
Andrew Marvell is a British poet who lived in 17th century. His poems cover a wide variety of themes: from the love to politics and nature’s role in people’s lives. Marvell often used exalted topics/ However, he chooses different approaches compared to other famous poets like William Wordsworth who was born and worked hundred years after Marvell’s death. The last author often covered metaphysical motifs like his experience as a cloud that saw a filed of daffodils during its everyday trip. While many poets were concerned with the afterlife, Marvell focused on the earthy paradise. Existence of such place that became forbidden for humans because of their mistakes, is a well …show more content…
These insects would be a good addition to the earthly paradise created by nature. Glowworms act as a natural source of light during nighttime and an evidence of the long-term good weather, which essential for the successful haymaking. Marvell also highlights importance of interpersonal relations; the narrator cannot be fully satisfied with his surroundings as he is affected by feelings to a woman named Juliana: “your courteous lights in vain you waste, since Juliana here is come” (Marvell 3). The poem shows a likely reference to Bible as the woman was one of key factors that spoiled joy of living in the heavenly garden. The name Juliana and (or) comments about human’s interaction with nature. The last topic became the main issue of the next poem, The Mower Against Gardens. The narrator says the nature creates a great environment, but people still look for ways to improve it by own efforts. As a result, they create own conditions, making living beings incapable to return to nature and abandoning its sources: “no plant now knew the stock from which it came… while the sweet fields do lie forgot: … a wild and fragrant innocence” (Marvell 4-5). He narrator mentions the nature already created paradisiacal conditions, but humans destroy them in efforts to improve their surroundings. Instead of usage of the existing sources they create own versions that …show more content…
Damon, the narrator, mentions the severity of his partner’s inattention. His sorrow was as sharp as his scythe, and “Juliana’s scorching beams” (Marvell 7) became the cause of the extreme heat the character experienced. Juliana’s negligence envenoms narrator’s life and likely makes him to destroy both the surrounding nature (which is the part of his work) and own body: “While thus he threw his elbow round, depopulating all the ground… The edged steel by careless chance did into his own ankle glance” (Marvell 8-9). In other words, the nature gives a person all conditions to live in an earthly paradise, but he cannot use them appropriately because of inner turmoil. These feelings move to the last part of the “mower’s” series in the list, The Mower’s Song. The narrator continues to suffer because of Juliana’s attitude. Romantic heartbreak ruins his ability to accept nature’s gifts; more to the point, he starts to feel he needs to take revenge on the “treacherous” environment: “shall now by my revenge be wrought; and flow’rs, and grass, and I and all, will in one common ruin fall” (Marvell
Andrew Marvell is a British poet who lived in 17th century. His poems cover a wide variety of themes: from the love to politics and nature’s role in people’s lives. Marvell often used exalted topics/ However, he chooses different approaches compared to other famous poets like William Wordsworth who was born and worked hundred years after Marvell’s death. The last author often covered metaphysical motifs like his experience as a cloud that saw a filed of daffodils during its everyday trip. While many poets were concerned with the afterlife, Marvell focused on the earthy paradise. Existence of such place that became forbidden for humans because of their mistakes, is a well …show more content…
These insects would be a good addition to the earthly paradise created by nature. Glowworms act as a natural source of light during nighttime and an evidence of the long-term good weather, which essential for the successful haymaking. Marvell also highlights importance of interpersonal relations; the narrator cannot be fully satisfied with his surroundings as he is affected by feelings to a woman named Juliana: “your courteous lights in vain you waste, since Juliana here is come” (Marvell 3). The poem shows a likely reference to Bible as the woman was one of key factors that spoiled joy of living in the heavenly garden. The name Juliana and (or) comments about human’s interaction with nature. The last topic became the main issue of the next poem, The Mower Against Gardens. The narrator says the nature creates a great environment, but people still look for ways to improve it by own efforts. As a result, they create own conditions, making living beings incapable to return to nature and abandoning its sources: “no plant now knew the stock from which it came… while the sweet fields do lie forgot: … a wild and fragrant innocence” (Marvell 4-5). He narrator mentions the nature already created paradisiacal conditions, but humans destroy them in efforts to improve their surroundings. Instead of usage of the existing sources they create own versions that …show more content…
Damon, the narrator, mentions the severity of his partner’s inattention. His sorrow was as sharp as his scythe, and “Juliana’s scorching beams” (Marvell 7) became the cause of the extreme heat the character experienced. Juliana’s negligence envenoms narrator’s life and likely makes him to destroy both the surrounding nature (which is the part of his work) and own body: “While thus he threw his elbow round, depopulating all the ground… The edged steel by careless chance did into his own ankle glance” (Marvell 8-9). In other words, the nature gives a person all conditions to live in an earthly paradise, but he cannot use them appropriately because of inner turmoil. These feelings move to the last part of the “mower’s” series in the list, The Mower’s Song. The narrator continues to suffer because of Juliana’s attitude. Romantic heartbreak ruins his ability to accept nature’s gifts; more to the point, he starts to feel he needs to take revenge on the “treacherous” environment: “shall now by my revenge be wrought; and flow’rs, and grass, and I and all, will in one common ruin fall” (Marvell