ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The Definition of Love by Andrew Marvell | Poetry Foundation.

Detailed explanation-2: -Therefore the Love which us doth bind, But Fate so enviously debarrs, Is the Conjunction of the Mind, And Opposition of the Stars. This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on March 31, 2018, by the Academy of American Poets.

Detailed explanation-3: -The oldest surviving love poem is written in a clay tablet from the times of the Sumerians, inventors of writing around 3500 BD, and was called by archaeologists by a very un-romantic name: ‘Istanbul #2461’.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1661 Marvell was re-elected MP for Hull in the Cavalier Parliament. He eventually came to write several long and bitterly satirical verses against the corruption of the court. This work was mostly circulated in less public manuscript form, however some was anonymously published in print.