discuss the poem as a commentary on human nature. from the poem The flower.-Alfred Tennyson
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The Flower’ is a little gem of a poem from Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-92), who remains the longest-serving UK Poet Laureate (from 1850 until his death in 1892). During the six decades of his career as a poet, Tennyson had to endure criticism as well as enjoy praise and awards, and ‘The Flower’ seems to address the less pleasing side of being a public poet.
Once in a golden hour
I cast to earth a seed.
Up there came a flower,
The people said, a weed.
To and fro they went
Thro’ my garden-bower,
And muttering discontent
Curs’d me and my flower.
Then it grew so tall
It wore a crown of light,
But thieves from o’er the wall
Stole the seed by night.
Sow’d it far and wide
By every town and tower,
Till all the people cried,
‘Splendid is the flower.’
Read my little fable:
He that runs may read.
Most can raise the flowers now,
For all have got the seed.
And some are pretty enough,
And some are poor indeed;
And now again the people
Call it but a weed.
tween poetry and flowers – between poesy and posies, we might say – is an old one, as the origin of the word ‘anthology’, for a collection of poems by different writers, testifies (the word means ‘a collection of flowers’). In ‘The Flower’, Tennyson uses the metaphor of planting a seed and nurturing it so that it grows into a flower for the act of creating poetry
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Discuss the poem ‘The Flower’ by Tennyson as a commentary on Human Nature.