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A 5 page paper which examines Plato and
Aristotle’s criticism as it applies to Andrew Marvell’s poem “The Garden.” Bibliography
lists 4 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAmarvel.rtf
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is a rather complex art form that takes a serious amount of explication, in many cases, and an art form that is considered to perhaps be the most successfully expressive
when it comes to relaying thoughts, ideas, and emotions. The following paper examines Andrew Marvells poem "The Garden" and then discusses it from the perspective of Plato and then Aristotle,
who both had varying philosophies concerning art and poetry. The Garden While at first this poem seems to be about little more than the Garden of Eden, before
woman was created, it is much more a poem about the nature of mankind and mankinds experiences. It was written following Civil Wars and examines some serious issues. One critic
states, "This poem composed by Marvell, as he states in the subtitle after the Civil Wars greatly reflects Marvells feelings at the time about the state of society and war.
The poem is rich in figurative language and devices, yet still conveys a very serious, yet imaginative question about the world he lived in" (Eichenlaub). According to this critic
the poem is filled with metaphors, for example, one being the "personification of flowers being the members of armies on Earth, not human beings" (Eichenlaub). We also note that the
role of the bees in Marvells poem "fits in with human experience, the reader most likely being familiar with the sharp pain of a bee sting" (Eichenlaub). This is perhaps
seen in the following lines: "Each bee, as sentinel, is shut,/ And sleeps so too; but if once stirrd,/ She runs you through, nor asks the word" (Marvell 10-12).
There begins the clear reference to the Garden of Eden, but "Even at this point the reader should begin to recognize this paradise he is referring to as an allusion....The
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