... tribute, honouring and welcoming Oliver Cromwell home from his conquest of Ireland. In addition to praising and acknowledging Cromwell as a good leader, Marvell injects a somewhat subtle use of ambiguity and irony, which deliberately interweave in order to delineate his subjection of Ireland during the 1650's. Upon a preliminary reading of the poem, that is to say, a reading whereby a critical deconstruction is not ... at least, to the fact that the poem works so very competently at being purely an Ode, that it is easy to overlook the expertly understated and delicate use of irony and s...

• Word Count: 418
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Graduate