Love and friendship - Sometimes one wonders whether which one matters most. Is it love? Or is it friendship? Love and Friendship, Bronte symbolizes love as being a "wild rose-briar" and refers to a friendship as being a "holly tree". The 'wild rose-briar" is sweet and its "summer blossoms scent the air", but what happens in the winter? As for the "holly tree", one "may still leave thy garland green". Bronte refers love and friendship as being, indeed, beautiful things, but she implies an opinion stating friendship is always there to lend a helping hand when love lets you down.