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The Tuft of Flowers
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A kindred Spirit
- The speaker acknowledges that man does not work alone, but we are all connected through our mutual joys.
- In this case, it is their mutual love for the natural world that connects the speaker and mower.
Isolation and Community
- The speaker denies the existence of community in the early part of the poem. He is only concerned with self.
- The discovery of the tuft of flowers changes his mind.
- Although the mower probably left the flowers for his own delight, the speaker can also experience their beauty, creating a sense of community/fellowship.
The image of the butterfly searching for the flower of yesterday is often considered to represent the brevity of life. What is here to be enjoyed today could be gone tomorrow.
Written in Iambic Pentameter which gives it a rhythmic beat.
The natural world acts as a guide and mentor.
- A poem with a rural setting
- Sorrow and despair turns to joy and celebration.
- The butterfly is responsible for the speaker overcoming his initial gloomy mood.
- The butterfly is the catalyst for change.
- It demonstrates the power of nature to teach man about fellowship.
- A poem which once again shows Frost as a poet of metaphor.
- This poem celebrates the beauty and power of the natural world.
- The speaker is inspired by the beauty of the flowers.
- He likens their dramatic colours to flames leaping off the ground.
- The mower also appreciates the beauty of the natural world.
- He spared the flowers because the sight of them pleased him.
The natural world consoles the speaker.
- The sight of the flowers enables the speaker to overcome his initial introspective and gloomy mood.
- Once he sees the flowers, he begins to engage with the world around him.
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