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Annihilating all that’s made To a green thought in a green shade.

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“Annihilating all that’s made To a green thought in a green shade.”

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Marvell imagines the contemplative mind withdrawing from ordinary objects and social striving into an intensely concentrated vision of green nature.

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“The Garden,” posthumously published in Miscellaneous Poems (1681), represented through the public-domain Project Gutenberg text in The Quiet Life. The lines belong to a lyric meditation on solitude, mind, nature and Edenic imagery.

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