The Garden Archetypes
The poem “The Garden” by Andrew Marvell focuses around various themes of harmony, love, and innocence. This further represents its relation to the archetype of The Innocent, an ego type. Out of the twelve archetypes used commonly in written work, the author Carl Gustav Jung, generalized these types to be constantly represented in a person’s life and personal traits. To further explain one’s personality broken down, it is simply that everyone is brought up differently, therefore varying in their belief and value systems. Although humans are complex beings, and different archetypes may apply to one personality, one archetype usually takes dominance over the other. The basis of the poem focuses on the protagonist explaining how he has chased
love his entire life, and it has rarely ever resulted in true happiness for him. Where he finds most solitude and lust, is in the garden. The archetype of The Innocent has a large relation into the depths of this poem because the man in the story and the man used to describe the archetype are very similar. They both have an end goal of to just be happy, and they have the optimism to do it. In the poem, the man struggles to find an overall sense of being himself and discovering what true love is, and in the end he discovered solidarity in his garden gave him the most happiness, which can relate to the other name given to The Innocent archetype; a dreamer.
Jung’s description of solidarity is present in lines 13-16 stating “ Your sacred plants, if here below, Only among the plants will grow ; Society is all but rude, To this delicious solitude.” This quote further interprets what solidarity means to the man, and how society deems it to be unsuitable to live as a bachelor your entire life, without sharing your happiness and memories with someone else. What makes him a dreamer in The Innocent archetype is that he purposely chooses to disregard what society tells you, and makes his own path. This is how the protagonist and the person described in the archetype share a personality in common.
love his entire life, and it has rarely ever resulted in true happiness for him. Where he finds most solitude and lust, is in the garden. The archetype of The Innocent has a large relation into the depths of this poem because the man in the story and the man used to describe the archetype are very similar. They both have an end goal of to just be happy, and they have the optimism to do it. In the poem, the man struggles to find an overall sense of being himself and discovering what true love is, and in the end he discovered solidarity in his garden gave him the most happiness, which can relate to the other name given to The Innocent archetype; a dreamer.
Jung’s description of solidarity is present in lines 13-16 stating “ Your sacred plants, if here below, Only among the plants will grow ; Society is all but rude, To this delicious solitude.” This quote further interprets what solidarity means to the man, and how society deems it to be unsuitable to live as a bachelor your entire life, without sharing your happiness and memories with someone else. What makes him a dreamer in The Innocent archetype is that he purposely chooses to disregard what society tells you, and makes his own path. This is how the protagonist and the person described in the archetype share a personality in common.