The Garden Themes

Marvell and an oak tree sittin' in a tre-—heyyy, wait a second… that's not right. Except that in "The Garden," it's pretty much exactly right. Our speaker is obsessed with the garden. He loves...

If Marvell thought it was hard to get some time to yourself back in the 1650s, it's almost impossible to imagine what he would have to say if he were alive today, what with people tweeting 24-7 and...

Tackling "The Garden" is a pretty ambitious literary goal, so we think it's only fitting that ambition is one of the themes at work in the poem. In fact, it's the first major theme to pop up, but i...

You know that song by Olivia Newton-John, "Physical" (warning: Speedos were involved in the making of this music video)? Well we're going to take it a step further and get metaphysical, because thi...