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- Title
MARVELL AND THE 'TYGRESS FELL'.
- Authors
Parker, Ian C.
- Abstract
The article discusses the poetry of English poet Andrew Marvell. It cites a poem "The Last Instructions to a Painter," by Marvell. It describes the response, on June 13, 1667, of Admiral George Monck, witnessing from the banks of the Medway river valley, England the unmitigated "naval" disaster of the Battle of the Medway. The diminutive epic simile of lines 623-8, with its specific detail, sounds as though it has been drawn from some other account and applied to a contemporary situation to which it was analogous. The meaning of the passage also seems fairly straightforward. Monck is being compared to a tigress whose children have been stolen by robbers. Prevented (by the obstacle represented by the river) from attacking the robbers, exacting her revenge on them, and regaining her children, the tigress tears at her own breast in frustration.
- Subjects
ENGLISH poetry; MARVELL, Andrew, 1621-1678; LAST Instructions to a Painter, The (Poem); ENGLISH poets; REVENGE; FIGURES of speech
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 2005, Vol 52, Issue 3, p318
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1093/notesj/gji311