Re: PPB: The Mower to the Glow-Worms
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> George J. Dance wrote: > >> Will-Dockery wrote: >> >>> George J. Dance wrote: >>> Saturday's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog: >>> The Mower to the Glow-Worms, by Andrew Marvell >>> >>> Ye living lamps, by whose dear light >>> The nightingale does sit so late, >>> And studying all the summer night, >>> Her matchless songs does meditate >>> [...] >>> >>> (read for Ming Aretê) >>> >>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-mower-to-glow-worms-andrew-marvell.html >> >> >> Nice one by Andrew Marvell. > > > Yes, it's a cool little poem. I did some online reading about it, when I was setting up the page, and found > it's pretty widely appreciated. Oliver Tearle at Interesting Literature has a nice poetry explication up > in which he calls it "one of the little jewels in the crown of seventeenth-century poetry" for example. > https://interestingliterature.com/2015/11/a-short-analysis-of-marvells-the-mower-to-the-glow-worms/ > > The connection with July is tenuous, but the poem I'll be blogging today mentions mowing as a July > activity, which makes it explicit for anyone reading the month's archive in the future. Yes, and of course August has a similar theme. See JLA Forums attachment below for a photograph of Rad with his new push mower, possibly similar to one Andrew Marvell might have used. 😏 View the attachments for this post at: http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=709577853#709577853 This response appears in the discussion at: http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=708966298#708966298 -- Via JLA Forums web gateway for alt.arts.poetry.comments: http://www.jlaforums.com/viewforum.php?f=655