This poem evokes a feeling of peaceful acceptance in me. I, like Dickinson, am a naturalist and see that nature and God both "approve" of the end of the life cycle for all living things. Even the Flower itself accepts its own demise, the end of its happy play.
The poet's calling the Frost a "blonde Assassin," a personification, does not make this bringer of Flower's death "evil." The Frost's "accidental power" is part of nature and nature's God.
The Flower is also personified in several figurative words: it would be able to feel "surprise" (but doesn't); it is "happy"; it is "playing." The contrast between the Flower's happiness and its being "beheaded" is at the heart of the poem, but so is the poet's and God's approval of this order of things.
This poem evokes a feeling of peaceful acceptance in me. I, like Dickinson, am a naturalist and see that nature and God both "approve" of the end of the life cycle for all living things. Even the Flower itself accepts its own demise, the end of its happy play.
The poet's calling the Frost a "blonde Assassin," a personification, does not make this bringer of Flower's death "evil." The Frost's "accidental power" is part of nature and nature's God.
The Flower is also personified in several figurative words: it would be able to feel "surprise" (but doesn't); it is "happy"; it is "playing." The contrast between the Flower's happiness and its being "beheaded" is at the heart of the poem, but so is the poet's and God's approval of this order of things.
การแปล กรุณารอสักครู่..