"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]
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