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
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This famous quote from Keats' "Endymion"" perfectly describes what he loved to pen: works on beauty, and beauty is one of the main themes in his work "Ode on a Grecian Urn". ... Although lines 26 and 27 are usually tied with the second story, it can be applied to both love stories documented on the urn. ... The speaker explains the "moment of ecstasy " to the young piper by explaining that he is truly living in his own garden of Eden -- unaffected by the seasons, eternally young and immune to the damage passing years can bring (15-16, 21-22). Not only will he and his surroundings never fa...

• Word Count: 1262
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"The gardens bright with sinuous rills" and "sunny spots of greenery" was well as "forests as ancient as the hills" shows Coleridge's and most of the Romantic Poets love if the natural environment. ... Similarities are found mostly in the type of language used, but the values, attitudes and beliefs shared by the Romantics such as their love of nature, humanitari...

• Word Count: 2284
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School