/The fragrance of your garments is like that of Lebanon.You are a garden locked up, my sister, my bride. ... / Blow on my garden,/that its fragrance may be spread abroad.Let my lover come into his garden and taste its choice fruits.... Here, the man is invited to the beloved's garden with the news of this love "spread abroad". (NIV, Song of Songs 4:16) In the fifth stanza, the resolution of love is complete: "I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride;/I have gathered my myrrh with my spice.... This love-wooed with relative restraint, had and flourished within the cont...

• Word Count: 1123
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Throughout these poems, the reader is also able to get a sense of the Mower's developing alienation due to his unrequited love for the character Juliana. ... There seems to be a satirical commentary by Marvell on the 17th century society's obsession with their gardens. The Mower frowns upon those who use their gardens for pleasure-seeking purposes. ... " Many comparisons can be made between this poem and Christopher Marlowe's poem 'The Passionate Shepherd to his Love'. ... Reoccurring themes of the pastoral include love and death and this emphasis is placed upo...

• Word Count: 1808
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In a continuation of this theme of natural imagery; symbols pertaining to life and fertility; including flowers, gardens and water, pervade the fourth stanza. ... Through contemplation of memory, friendship and mortality the speaker seems to come to terms with the "dreams, pain, memories, love and grief" of life and the finality of a death that will "bear [them] away for ever". ...

• Word Count: 856
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

We recall those kinfolk people who loved us as children, their closeness and kindness; their voices, smells and faces. ... One can imagine from the viewpoint of the child cavorting in the garden, it is the HOUSE that appears to undulate; "hail" - in the sense of either:- a barrage of questions, or a greeting, or attracting attention, or having one's origins in. ...

• Word Count: 994
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Hence, "the image of wealth and luxury describes not only the blossoms from her garden but also the richness and sustaining power of" poetry (Tingle,2009); the flower, "like a good poem, hides its softest velvets or deepest, most intimate petal sentences for the one who appreciates it" (Fart,Carter,2005). ... In fact, the title highlights his love for individuals: each leaf of grass possesses its own distinct beauty, and together the blades form a beautiful unified whole, a Whitman's theme explored in the sixth section of "Song of Myself", in which he again &...

• Word Count: 2619
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate