Bermudas (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Andrew Marvell
- First Published: 1681
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Caribbean, England or English people, Seventeenth century, Islands, Explorers
The Poem
“Bermudas” is a short poem of eight-syllable (octosyllabic) lines arranged in iambic tetrameter couplets. The poem begins with a four-line exordium, or introduction, by a narrator. The next thirty-two lines consist of a song of thanksgiving being sung by people in a boat as they row. The poem then ends with a peroration, or conclusion, of four lines by the narrator, who identifies the people as English.
In the first section, an omniscient narrator—a mysterious persona who is so objective that he seems to be absent from the scene—immediately situates the...
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