The Mower's Song

Poem by Andrew Marvell

"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.^[1] 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.^[2]

Subject and themes

In the poem, a man who works as a mower sings about his lover Juliana.^[3] He compares her cruelty with his own cruelty to the grass he cuts.^[4]

References

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