Editing Maypole (section)

==In literature==
Poet [[Jonathan Swift]] in his poem "A Maypole"<ref>{{cite wikisource |title=A Maypole}}</ref> describes a maypole as:

{{quote|<poem>
Deprived of root, and branch, and rind,
Yet flowers I bear of every kind:
And such is my prolific power,
They bloom in less than half an hour;
</poem>}}

"[[The May-Pole of Merry Mount]]" is a [[short story]] by [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]].<ref name="Harold Bloom">{{Cite book |editor-last=Bloom |editor-first=Harold |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=egtwIOAV4y4C&q=%22The%20Maypole%20of%20Merry%20Mount%22&pg=PA5 |title=Nathaniel Hawthorne |date=2001 |publisher=Chelesea House Publishers |isbn=0-7910-5949-9 |pages=37–47 |access-date=2 May 2017}}</ref> It first appeared in ''[[The Token and Atlantic Souvenir]]'' in 1836. The story revolves around a young couple feeling the influence of nature who get betrothed in the presence of a Maypole and face Puritan ire.<ref name="Leland Person">{{Cite book |last=Person |first=Leland S. |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_521670969 |isbn=978-0-511-61099-8 |title=The Cambridge Introduction to Nathaniel Hawthorne |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2007 |page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_521670969/page/9 9] |quote=the maypole of merry mount. |access-date=2 May 2017 |url-access=registration}}</ref> Hawthorne based his story on events in colonial New England history, borrowing from a story of Thomas Mortan whose settlement opposed the rigid cultural and religious standards of the Plymouth colony Puritans.<ref name="Joshua Matthews">{{Cite book |last=Joshua |first=Matthews |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MKxbAgAAQBAJ&q=Maypole%20In%20literature&pg=PP1 |title=Encyclopedia of American Literature |date=June 2013 |publisher=EPUB 2–3 |isbn=9781438140773 |edition=Third |access-date=2 May 2017}}</ref>