The Wild Honey Suckle
Thursday, 22. March 2007, 13:42:34
The Wild Honey Suckle
——By Philip Morin Freneau
Fair flower, that dost so comely grow,
Hid in this silent, dull retreat,
Untouch'd thy honey'd blossoms blow,
Unseen thy little branches greet;
No roving foot shall crush thee here,
No busy hand provoke a tear.
By Nature's self in white array'd,
She bade thee shun the vlugar eye,
And planted here the guardian shade,
And sent soft waters murmuring by;
Thus quietly thy summer goes,
Thy days declining to repose.
Smit with those charms, that must decay,
I grieve to see your future doom,
They died-- nor were those flowers less gay,
The flowers that did in Eden bloom;
Unpitying frosts, and Autumn's power
Shall leave no vestige of this flower.
From morning suns and evening dews
At first thy little being came:
If nothing once, you nothing lose,
For when you die you are the same;
The space between, is but an hour,
The frail duration of a flower.
This is a lyric poem, written in iambic tetrameter. It’s rhyme scheme is ababcc and contains four sextette. The tone in this poem is sentimental and emotional. The arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables suggests the transience of the life of the flower and the poet's emotional change.
Honey suckle:
The name honey suckle comes from the sweet nectar that the flower produces to introxicate the greedy bee. Its powerful fragrance seduces the human senses as it pervades the air. The perfume of this passionate plant may turn a mainden’s head, hence wild honey suckle is a symbol of inconstancy in love.
Content:
In this poem the poet expressed a keen awareness of the loveliness and transience of nature.He not only meditated on mortality but also celebrated nature. It implies that life and death are inevitable law of nature. Throughout the whole poem, you may have a strong feeling of pathos. Because the poet use lots of words, tending to build up something seculsion, such as: "hid" "silent" "dull" "retreat" "untouched" "unseen"……Besides, the poem is full of sensuous images such as fair flower image,comely grow kinasthetic image and honeyed blossoms olfactory image. All the vivid images make us feel pity for the beautiful flower which has only a short life.At the end, the poet try to tells us something about philosophy, that is: the material things are mortal, but spiritual life is eternal. This also implies his optimistic attitute towards life. Everything makes its start from "morning suns and evening dews", they come from nothing and lose nothing when they die. Everyone is the same as others, we are equal to each other. Though life is transience, we have to cherish it.
——By Philip Morin Freneau
Fair flower, that dost so comely grow,
Hid in this silent, dull retreat,
Untouch'd thy honey'd blossoms blow,
Unseen thy little branches greet;
No roving foot shall crush thee here,
No busy hand provoke a tear.
By Nature's self in white array'd,
She bade thee shun the vlugar eye,
And planted here the guardian shade,
And sent soft waters murmuring by;
Thus quietly thy summer goes,
Thy days declining to repose.
Smit with those charms, that must decay,
I grieve to see your future doom,
They died-- nor were those flowers less gay,
The flowers that did in Eden bloom;
Unpitying frosts, and Autumn's power
Shall leave no vestige of this flower.
From morning suns and evening dews
At first thy little being came:
If nothing once, you nothing lose,
For when you die you are the same;
The space between, is but an hour,
The frail duration of a flower.
This is a lyric poem, written in iambic tetrameter. It’s rhyme scheme is ababcc and contains four sextette. The tone in this poem is sentimental and emotional. The arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables suggests the transience of the life of the flower and the poet's emotional change.
Honey suckle:
The name honey suckle comes from the sweet nectar that the flower produces to introxicate the greedy bee. Its powerful fragrance seduces the human senses as it pervades the air. The perfume of this passionate plant may turn a mainden’s head, hence wild honey suckle is a symbol of inconstancy in love.
Content:
In this poem the poet expressed a keen awareness of the loveliness and transience of nature.He not only meditated on mortality but also celebrated nature. It implies that life and death are inevitable law of nature. Throughout the whole poem, you may have a strong feeling of pathos. Because the poet use lots of words, tending to build up something seculsion, such as: "hid" "silent" "dull" "retreat" "untouched" "unseen"……Besides, the poem is full of sensuous images such as fair flower image,comely grow kinasthetic image and honeyed blossoms olfactory image. All the vivid images make us feel pity for the beautiful flower which has only a short life.At the end, the poet try to tells us something about philosophy, that is: the material things are mortal, but spiritual life is eternal. This also implies his optimistic attitute towards life. Everything makes its start from "morning suns and evening dews", they come from nothing and lose nothing when they die. Everyone is the same as others, we are equal to each other. Though life is transience, we have to cherish it.
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