"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.Ormerod, David (2000). Pastoral and lyric poems 1681. UWA Publishing, 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.Wilcher, Robert (1985). Andrew Marvell, p. 100. CUP Archive,
Subject and themes
In the poem, a man who works as a mower sings about his lover Juliana.Reeves, James; Seymour-Smith, Martin (1969). The poems of Andrew Marvell. Barnes & Noble (reprint 1986), He compares her cruelty with his own cruelty to the grass he cuts.Glancy, Ruth F. (2002). Thematic guide to British poetry. Greenwood Publishing Group,
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External links
The Mower's Song via Luminarium