Milton's "Comus" is rich in boskage imagery, the dense woodland undergrowth through which the Lady wanders creating an atmosphere of enchantment, danger, and the loss of clear direction — "in the blind mazes of this tangled wood"; Spenser's "Faerie Queene" deploys boskage to create the impenetrable, enchanted woodland of romance allegory, where knights lose their way and moral clarity dissolves into the complexity of the dark thicket; A poet might write "beyond the garden's edge lay boskage, wild and dense, where civilization's geometry gave way to the curved logic of competing growth"; The word's French origin and elevated register distinguish it from homelier English words like "thicket" or "copse," marking a poem as engaging with the courtly, Continental tradition of pastoral romance rather than the English georgic tradition; In contrast to the ordered rows of the cultivated field, boskage represents the alternative principle of nature — complex, tangled, without obvious purpose or direction, beautiful in its excess; Victorian poets used boskage to evoke the lush, slightly threatening vegetation of landscapes that had escaped agricultural order, a counterpoint to the increasingly managed English countryside.