The writer of this paper contends and explains why the 'soul' is the inner part of us, while at the same time the 'body'
is our outer part, as portrayed in Marvell's poem. The soul suffers from the effects of being influenced by external factors and the
social and moral decline which Marvell identifies as the '
disease' that plagues the body. The body's lamentation is actually a series of complaints against the soul's obvious reference to the individual's conscience and morality. This paper discusses the manner in which Marvell addresses the issue of duality in people. This paper examines the main focus of the poem, which is about the social and moral disease, wherein blindness, deafness and torture of the inner self were the consequences brought about by the individual's exposure to the social and moral decline of human society.