ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the three Poems by Marvell are 'Bermudas', 'The Garden', and 'A Dialogue between the Resolved Soul and Created Pleasure'. 'Bermudas' is a poetic celebration of the English colonists arriving in the Bermudas and establishing a new community during the mid-seventeenth century. Marvell frames the poem as a song of praise, sung by the group of English colonists as they arrive to the islands by boat. 'The Garden' begins with the speaker reflecting upon the vanity and inferiority of man's devotion to public life in politics, war, and civic service. Pleasure seeks to tempt the Soul from its path to Heaven by a number of sensual delights, with each being curtly rebuffed until the midway climax of aural pleasure, which the Soul acknowledges. The poem ends with the Chorus celebrating Soul's 'triumph', though the reader may wonder how persuasive the poem has made this victory.
