MARVELL- Bermudas. An essay about Mervell's escapist poem to the "remote Bermudas." Marvell employs all the techniques of poetry to create a dreamy escape from reality.

BERMUDAS By Andrew Marvell Imaginative Journeys This brilliantly rhythmic poem is a heavenly journey made possible by the skilful stimulation of your imagination. Indeed, Bermudas is Andrew Marvell's vehicle for enchanting you from your own ordinary situation, to a place of 'eternal spring' and 'golden lamps.' But obviously, not even a poem as good as this can physically take you somewhere; instead the journey of Marvell's Bermudas is metaphysical- a dreamy escape from familiar …

…Door's inspiration is also a society where the atmosphere is claustrophobic. Both poems ask the reader to speculate, imagine, wonder what it would be like 'to open the door' to go to a better place. So we can see from the fantastic 'Bermuda's that poetry is an affective way for a skilled poet, like Andrew Marvell, to take our minds on a holiday, to wonder around the surreal, away from whatever troubles you may have.