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Andrew Marvell: The Mower against Gardens
Luxurious Man, to bring his Vice in use, Did after him the World seduce: And from the fields the Flow'rs and Plants allure, Where Nature was most plain and pure. He first enclos'd within the Gardens square A dead and standing pool of Air: And a more luscious Earth for them did knead, Which stupifi'd them while it fed. The Pink grew then as double as his Mind; The nutriment did change the kind. With strange perfumes he did the Roses taint. And Flow'rs themselves were taught to paint. The Tulip, white, did for complexion seek; And learn'd to interline its cheek: Its Onion root they then so high did hold, That one was for a Meadow sold. Another World was search'd, through Oceans new, To find the Marvel of Peru. And yet these Rarities might be allow'd, To Man, that sov'raign thing and proud; Had he not dealt between the Bark and Tree, Forbidden mixtures there to see. No Plant now knew the Stock from which it came; He grafts upon the Wild the Tame: That the uncertain and adult'rate fruit Might put the Palate in dispute. His green Seraglio has its Eunuchs too; Lest any Tyrant him out-doe. And in the Cherry he does Nature vex, To procreate without a Sex. 'Tis all enforc'd; the Fountain and the Grot; While the sweet Fields do lye forgot: Where willing Nature does to all dispence A wild and fragrant Innocence: And Fauns and Faryes do the Meadows till, More by their presence then their skill. Their Statues polish' d by some ancient hand, May to adorn the Gardens stand: But howso'ere the Figures do excel, The Gods themselves with us do dwell. Andrew Marvell (1621-1678): The Mower against Gardens, from Miscellaneous Poems, 1681
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Berlin, Hermannstrasse: photo by Lyd.ium, 2015
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Berlin, Hermannstrasse: photo by Lyd.ium, 2015
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Berlin, Lichtenberg. Frankfurter Allee.: photo by Lyd.ium, 2016
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(Imitation Life)
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Berlin: photo by Lyd.ium, November 2014
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Grab a drink. Rethymna, Crete.: photo by Spyros Papaspyropoulos, 26 February 2017
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Grab a drink. Rethymna, Crete.: photo by Spyros Papaspyropoulos, 26 February 2017
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Imitations of Life: The Films of Douglas Sirk (trailer)
Loved discovering Mower at UM: Prof. Knott saying, "No, Kent, it really IS about a REAL mower." Metaphor, smetaphor thot I.
kent,
Thanks for reminding me once again that this blog is available on planet Earth, and that sentient creatures dwell thereon. How easy it is to forget, sometimes.
In any case... yes, hard not to believe Andrew had eyeballed an actual sweaty, hunky, nonmetaphorical mower or two in his period as a tutor on Thomas Fairfax's estate... though again, who really knows for sure, as all is more than somewhat mystery-shrouded with our Andrew... not forgetting the legendary private drinking, the obscure Peruvian ancestry and the secretive work as a field investigator for the EPA... and that's as should be, I reckon.
"And Flow'rs themselves were taught to paint" -- as was someone in Berlin, who thence has gone on to paint these bright flowers and trees on these otherwise somewhat drab colored walls. Thanks Tom!
Sentient being a relative term.
Andrew and the Mower return...
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