Marvell used two things repeatedly in his poetry. One is gardens and flowers, and the other is the less concrete spiritual things, like the soul, the body, the mind, life, and death. Marvell upon first reading seemed to have been rather fascinated by death. He is known as a metaphysical poet, and that list of items certainly fits. The metaphysical poets were called that because they wrote about these dualities, especially the intangibles versus the tangible symbols or connections. “It is primarily concerned with problems deriving from or akin to the ancient problem of the One and the Many, body and soul, mind and body, transience and permanence, mortality and immortality, unity-induality.” (Press 14) Metaphysical poetry should have a certain tension under this duality. Marvell,s poetry does this and the duality is often represented in the title. Marvel wrote many poems about the garden and contrasted the beauty he saw there with the radiance and brilliance of God and the spiritual world. Even his love poems had a spiritual side, though he, admittedly suffered from a weakness of the flesh. He used this to contrast his human weakness and unworthiness to the might and rightness of God. “WHEN for the thorns with which I long, too long, With many a piercing wound, My Saviour’s head has crowned, I seek with garlands to redress that wrong,—….. That they, while thou on both their spoils dost tread, May crown Thy feet, that could not crown Thy head” In Coronet, which has the alternative meaning of “crown”, Marvell says that he sought to create a crown of flowers to replace the crown of thorns, but found that his crown was not worthy of the Savior’s head, since he has been touched by the serpent in that he would presume to be worthy to do any such thing, (“Thinking (so I my self deceive)/So rich a chaplet thence to weave/As never yet the King of Glory wore”)so he prays that, since He has defeated the serpent, might accept these garlands as fit for His feet. Marvell’s poetry often sounds a bit arrogant in places, but the humility here makes this poem shine. It is a poem of thanksgiving that Marvell, in his human weakness was ensnared by thoughts of fame and interest, was still saved by the grace of God. The poem contrasts the beauty which may be found in a garden with that of God and reminds himself that pride and presumption that one is even worthy to worship God is sinful. Perfect humility is what he seeks, but he believes that this is unattainable by man, because he will always be fined the snake coiling round the flower blossoms. In the Bermudas, Marvell strikes a balance between earthly triumph in the accomplishment of the risky journey to Bermuda and the praise that should be sung that those explorers survived the journey. He contrasted the two islands when he called the Bermudas “Unto an isle so long unknown. And yet far kinder than our own”. It was almost as if he were suggesting that difference as the difference between this world and Eden. He mentions apple trees bearing “apples of such price (the loss of innocence)/ no tree could ever bear them twice.” This is a definite reference to Eden since he is referring to the cost of eating the Tree of Knowledge of Good and E