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The Garden

(8) Snow Line

"The Garden" is no walk in the park, folks. There are allusions galore, complicated thoughts and syntax, fancy words, and so many layers of meaning not even your English teachers will unanimously agree on what this poem means. The complexity makes this poem undeniably hard, but somehow, between Marvell's metaphors, there is just enough room for light to shine through the clouds and show you the way to the top.