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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. Across these four poems, we are able to see the Mower's transformation from a happy, pastorally heroic protagonist into a revengeful human being who ends up completely disconnected from the natural environment. Throughout Andrew Marvell's collection of the four, "Mower," poems it is clear that the pastoral world is being presented primarily as the poems are written in the presence of shepherds. The first poem 'The Mower Against Gardens' creates a pastoral presentation by describing our world as, "plain and pure." The actual meaning of this poem expresses human intervention in nature, which then allows for this poem to be seen in an artificial way. This is poetry that has an, "ulterior motif," (Cooper, 2006) that helps the author to subtly criticize problems in society. It appears that the author is purposefully creating a world being edited and changed. This could be Marvell commenting his thoughts and concerns on his society through his poetry. Arguably, the human intervention in nature may over time become natural as it is portrayed in this poem. The Mower compares mankind to a brothel owner (a harem) by his description of, "green seraglio," as he believes that plants and trees are stolen of their natural beauty by man's grafting of nature. The Mower believes that the, "luxurious man," grafting plants is a manipulation against nature and the garden in seen as a corruptive force. By sectioning the fields and meadows and making, "gardens square," it is affecting the natural growth of the plants because they are not freely spaced with the right amount of air circulating them. This growth is being stunted by man's interference. This artificiality described by the Mower continues throughout the collection.
