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    Andrew Marvell (1/2)

    What do people think of his poems...

    ...especially the ones concerning love ?

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    Ditsy Pixie Niamh's Avatar
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    I liked his poem "Thoughts in a garden". i studied it for my leaving certificate. He really was a chauvinist!
    "Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
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    Definition of Love is one of my favorites. I like how he focusses on the intellectual implications of his love- rather than the gushing and exagerrated aspects the romantics (my love is like a red, red rose) have come to be associated with.
    It's truly a beautiful poem.
    -Z

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    I had to study two poems by him for British Poetry class: loved his wit in "To his Coy Mistress" and liked the misanthropist and pro-nature tone of "The Garden". Can't say I know much about his view on love, except for the fact that the lyrical subject in "To his Coy Mistress" supported the seize-the-day, erotic, carnal kind of love, and he defended it with down-to-earth arguments, seasoned with a lot of subtle humour and even morbid images.

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    his coy mistress is one of the poems I love to read at all times.

    “Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature””

    “If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.

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    The most best site!!!

    All recommend to visit this site, he has bored you be remembered.))))
    http://zapiklo.info

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    He's regarded as one of the supreme Poet's Poets. Generally though, his work remains idiosyncratic, and detached from even the metaphysical school in which he is generally categorized. The Mower poems for instance, are extremely difficult and don't seem to classify at all.

    Either way, a tremendous poet, though his least important works seem to be read most often.

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