"The mind, that ocean where each kind / Does straight its own resemblance find, / Yet it creates, transcending these, / Far other worlds, and other seas"
— Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Robert Boulter
Date
1681
Metaphor
"The mind, that ocean where each kind / Does straight its own resemblance find, / Yet it creates, transcending these, / Far other worlds, and other seas"
Metaphor in Context
Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less,
Withdraws into its happiness;
The mind, that ocean where each kind
Does straight its own resemblance find,
Yet it creates, transcending these,
Far other worlds, and other seas;
Annihilating all that's made
To a green thought in a green shade.
(ll. 41-48)
Withdraws into its happiness;
The mind, that ocean where each kind
Does straight its own resemblance find,
Yet it creates, transcending these,
Far other worlds, and other seas;
Annihilating all that's made
To a green thought in a green shade.
(ll. 41-48)
Categories
Provenance
Reading Norton Critical Edition of Seventeenth Century British Poetry, 1603-1660
Citation
Andrew Marvell, Miscellaneous Poems (London: Robert Boulter, 1681). <Link to EEBO> <Link to RPO>
Date of Entry
12/15/2006
