The Garden of Eden is a well talked about object in the literary world. This wondrous entity brings out imagination of what it looked like, how it smelled, what it meant to Adam and Eve, and what it now means to humanity today. The biblical garden serves as an excellent symbolic device, which can serve many differing purposes depending on the need of the author. An illustration of this point lends itself to two poems …showed first 75 words of 1388 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1388 total…in the pleasure of the common day garden and the similarity of gardens to the Garden of Eden. Although Margaret Cavendish’s attitude points towards an ignorance preference, she concedes to the beauty and wisdom of the forest. Andrew Marvell focuses on the wholesome beauty of the garden and the awesome trees. Both use the Garden of Eden to make seemingly different points, but in actuality, the purposes of the Eden metaphors are quite similar.