ANDREW MARVELL

EARLY LIFE

• 31 March 1621
• Winestead-in-Holderness
• Son of a clergyman also named Andrew Marvell

EARLY LIFE CONT.

• Hull
• Trinity @ 13
• Roamed countryside
• Tutored aristocrats?

POET OF CHANGE

• Metaphysical age
• Transition
• Satirist
• Attacked royal court

FIRST SATIRIST

• Inspired later satirists
• Alexander pope
• John Dryden

THE GARDEN (1ST STANZA)

• How vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the oak, or bays, And their uncessant labours see Crown’d from some single herb or tree, Whose short and narrow verged shade Does prudently their toils upbraid; While all flow’rs and all trees do close To weave the garlands of repose.

ANALYSIS

• "To win the palm, the oak, and bays."
• Palm- Military virtue
• Oak- Civic virtue
• Bays- Poetic virtue

ANALYSIS CONT.

• "While all flow’rs and all trees do close To weave the garlands of repose."
• Suggesting like Flowers and trees do close
• People remove from social obligation