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"The Mower's Song" is a pastoral poem by English poet Andrew Marvell, published posthumously in 1681. The work is the last of a series of four poems by Marvell known as the Mower poems. Though the mower in this poem is not named, scholars have stated that all the Mower poems are in the voice of Damon the Mower.

Subject and themes

In the poem, a man who works as a mower sings about his lover Juliana. He compares her cruelty with his own cruelty to the grass he cuts.

References

1. Ormerod, David (2000). Pastoral and lyric poems 1681. UWA Publishing, ISBN 978-1-876268-14-5
2. Wilcher, Robert (1985). Andrew Marvell, p. 100. CUP Archive, ISBN 978-0-521-27722-8
3. Reeves, James; Seymour-Smith, Martin (1969). The poems of Andrew Marvell. Barnes & Noble (reprint 1986), ISBN 978-0-435-15064-8
4. Glancy, Ruth F. (2002). Thematic guide to British poetry. Greenwood Publishing Group, ISBN 978-0-313-31379-0

External links

• The Mower's Song via Luminarium

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