Andrew Marvell's “The Garden” is a poem that through logical progression supports its already established point of view. It is a poem of meditation in a particular place, where the place presented influences the course of this meditative state. Although filled with images of nature, the poem takes a rather pessimistic point of view, arguing that total isolation from society and harmony with nature is the best way to live. Therefore, the entire poem centers on the idea of ​​a healthy nature in a world without humanity's education. In the first three stanzas, the virtues of the garden are provided through confrontation with the trial (and supposed pleasures) of the world of men, stanzas five to seven address the pleasures of the body, mind, and soul as they are gratified. in the garden, stanzas eight to nine return to the gesture towards Paradise. As this logical progression of argument moves through the poem, each part returns to the idea of ​​isolation, or rather a solitary state of being of the speaker. The poem opens with the topic of the destructive function of civilization on nature, focusing here specifically on the purpose of human efforts to seek recognition through the destruction of nature. The opening lines seamlessly take up nature's argument against men: "How in vain do men themselves amaze / To win the palm, the oak, or the laurel" (1-2). From the first lines the reader understands that the uselessness of work is denigrated in favor of the pleasant enjoyment of nature. In line 4, the speaker establishes the topic of the crown, which symbolizes the human desire for recognition. However, this crown is made from a cut branch or shrub and therefore shortens their life as they fade... middle of paper... allows them full autonomy, free from the needs of sec and procreation. Therefore, retreat into this garden state is a rejection of the whole world and of satiety, and what is presented as a validating state of speaker satisfaction is destined to last a short time, since it assumes that in a greater privilege is earned than from “a mortal's share” (61). In the final stanza of the poem, with the image of the floral quadrant, the speaker returns to earthly reality. “How could such sweet and wholesome hours / Be numbered but with herbs and flowers!” (71-72), grasses and flowers are transitory things, quickly dying, unsustainable over the seasons. Therefore, the image of the flower clock means that time is not stopped, the seasons change and the speaker is not yet in the timelessness of eternity (paradise) and therefore his stay in the garden must be equally short..