Hunting the Hunter: Fowling and Interpretive Entrapment in Upon Appleton House

Focusing on Upon Appleton House, this article seeks to illumine Marvell’s communication audiences (or the idea of audience) and thereby find an embodied authenticity.  Examining relationship between narrative surface-level appeals, excavates stanzas that represent common hunting practices figure interpreter's entrapment.  It focuses following intertexts: Gervase Markham’s Hungers Prevention (1621), a fowling text where Marvell found his “inverted tree”; Culex, brief mock epic attributed Virgil locates comedic gestures in grand poetic ambition; Augustine’s Confessions, which its metaphorical treatment birdlime helps us understand investment poetry be suspension self-conscious pleasure recursive process.