For the sake of having completely up-to-date spelling, this Lesson Plan makes use of the versions of Andrew Marvell's poems available on the Poetry Foundation website. A collected edition of all of these poems can be found, additionally, in the first volume of The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Andrew Marvell, edited by Reverend Alexander B. Grosart and published in 1872.
The thought questions in this lesson plan provide material and ideas that students can use to write short original essays and to develop their powers of analysis. The questions provided for the final paper are most suitable for student essays. For the sake of improving students' written expression, teachers should...
