How we cite our quotes: (Line)
Quote #4
The nectarine and curious peach,
Into my hands themselves do reach (37-38)
Here's a great example of the pastoral imagery at work in Marvell's poem. The bounty of nature is almost forcing itself on the speaker. All he has to do is lie back, relax, and enjoy it.
Quote #5
Here at the fountain's sliding foot
Or at some fruit-tree's mossy root
Casting the body's vest aside,
My soul into the boughs does glide (49-52)
Relaxation, it seems, is necessary if the speaker's soul is going to separate itself from the body. This passage communicates that the speaker is relaxed by describing him as propped up by the foot of a fountain or sitting at the base of a tree, but in what ways do the other stanzas communicate the same thing?
Quote #6
How could such sweet and wholesome hours
Be reckoned but with herbs and flow'rs! (71-72)
We think the scarecrow from The Wizard of Oz knew what Marvell meant.