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Twickman Garden - Coggle Diagram
Twickman Garden
Speaker's voice
pathetic
selfish
vengeful
narcissistic
hyperbolic
Themes
religion
pain
rejection
nature
Key analysis
metaphysical symbolism + nature imagery
'I come to seek the spring', 'There wholesome for me that winter did', 'a grave frost did forbid'
The garden is symbolic of his emotions. When it is winter the garden is dead and he feels heartbreak so he is waiting for the rebirth of spring which will bring an awakening and reduce his pain.
Personfication +nature imagery
'These trees to laugh and mock me to my face'
The speaker is trying to understand his emotions. - Melodramatic voice.
Religious imagery - intertextual reference to the garden of Eden
'True paradise, I have the serpent brought.'
His emotions are negatively effecting the garden.
Summary
A rejected lover seeks solace in a garden. Likely about Lucy Countess of Before, a married patroness of Donne's work.