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... Vivek Salgaocar IB Language Arts 2 9/11/2003 Ms. Pullen In-Class Poetry Analysis Civil wars are conflicts that usually exist between the masses and the rulers of a particular country or land. They arise due to unhappiness that exists within, due to which people rise up in revolt. Written about the British civil wars that broke out during the second half of the 17th century, this poem, by Andrew Marvell, speaks of the views of the groups of people that revolted against the administrators of Britain of that time, most likely the revolting middle-class. As is characteristic of metaphysical poets and poetry, he uses a wide variety of poetic devices like apostrophes and conceits to put forward his views in a strong and convincing manner. In the poem, using an extended metaphor/conceit of a garden, he compares the people of Britain to flowers of a garden. The poem
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