Since times immemorial flowers have been the topic of literature, paintings and poetry, not lonely for their beauty but more significantly the connotations that their individual appearances, uses and detriments evoke.
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In Robert Frosts poem The RoseFamily, he uses the rose as a tale simultaneously of excellence andmediocrity and compares the two through the reputation of the titular family,stating that:
The rose is arose,
And was always a rose.
But the theory now goes
That the apple's a rose,
And the pear is, and so's
The plum, I suppose.
By stating theseobvious discrepancies, Frost highlights the inherent stupidity in one frustrating tomeasure their identity adjoining another, and perhaps the roses admiration mightbe a source of envy for supplementary flowers - an obvious allegory for the humancondition.
In A blossom Giveto My Daughter, James Joyce makes use of the white rose as a tale of purityas he relates a little vignette very nearly his gifting the blossom to his child,whilst musing upon the eventual mortality of her teenage years and virtue.
William Blake, arevered poet of the doting period, would often use nature to vocalize thethemes of his work, most notably those of innocence and experience aspersonified by the lamb and the tiger respectively. following the poem, Ah!Sunflower, he seeks to encapsulate the theme of mortality as soon as the vain hopesof the eponymous cultivar as it nears the end of its activity how, later people,its teen exuberance has long previously passed and now it merely watches themovement of the sun, awaiting its become old to die and be reborn.
Throughout herpoem, A Bed of Wild Violets, Eliza Allen Starr highlights the themes of manversus nature by first outlining the tranquillity that can be found in a bed ofviolets, and how even the breeze caused by the affable pastime of the metropoliscan be converted to something relaxing by the presence of the flowers. The poemalso serves as a eulogy to childhood, as she recalls the positivecharacteristics the birds and nature are gifted of, and pull off not allowance in imitation of herhuman contemporaries - those of execution without pride.
It is importantthat we reflect on the change and the characteristics that flowers haveencouraged throughout our cultural development, and perhaps say yes from theirappearances some of the personality traits their authors fittingly praised them for.
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