White Tears and Indian Slaves in Marvell’s “Mourning”

Previous criticism of Marvell’s “Mourning” has not only ignored the narrator’s invocation “Indian slaves,” but in most cases actually erased it. This essay explores consequences that erasure for our understanding poem and its place history colonialism race-making.@font-face{font-family:Arial;panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 4;mso-font-charset:0;mso-generic-font-family:auto;mso-font-pitch:variable;mso-font-signature:-536859905 -1073711037 9 0 511 0;}@font-face{font-family:"?? ??";mso-font-charset:78;mso-generic-font-family:auto;mso-font-pitch:variable;mso-font-signature:-536870145 1791491579 18 131231 0;}@font-face{font-family:"Cambria Math";panose-1:2 5 3 4;mso-font-charset:0;mso-generic-font-family:auto;mso-font-pitch:variable;mso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 415 0;}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal{mso-style-unhide:no;mso-style-qformat:yes;mso-style-parent:"";margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"?? ??";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}.MsoChpDefault{mso-style-type:export-only;mso-default-props:yes;mso-fareast-font-family:"?? Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}div.WordSection1{page:WordSection1;}@font-face{font-family:Arial;panose-1:2 Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}div.WordSection1{page:WordSection1;}