What is imagery in the poem a contemplation upon flowers?

Answer 1

In stanza (1) the speaker draws a contemplation between flowers and draw find young men like themselves.The flowers are beautiful in their "embroidered garments". He knows that unlike humans beings the flowers are not vain, and they are quite harmless.Some humans beings forget where they have come from when they are promoted but not the flowers"you are not proud,you know your birth", the speaker commence admiring.

Flower contemplated accept that changes will come in their lives. It will not always be spring tide and they would also injure winter.Human being in contrast want to always e in spring time and never in the winter.This means that to be young,beautiful and successful,and never deal with sickness or old age of failure.Flowers are often seen at funerals yet even they look lovely and give off a fragrant perfume.The speaker realize that he has to dead rather he should make truce with them and pray that his life beautiful until death.The poet believes that if human lives a humble life the flowers and have a simple faith 'god'reguardless of the circumstances then deathneed not be a time of sorrow but a time of remembrance of peaceful and beautiful.Personification is an important device used throughout the poem.The speaker constantly tells about the flowers as if they are human vain,proud smile and bed etc.

But using these he is better able to compare young men with the flowers and show how different they are.

The speaker uses metaphor in the poem spring and winter are metaphors for the years of our lives.

Spring represents youth,beauty,health and success while,Winter represents old age, less beautiful,sickness and no success

By using this device the poet again contrast people and flowers,since they both go through the good and bad time in life.

Answer 2

Imagery in the poem "A Contemplation Upon Flowers" refers to the vivid and descriptive language used by the poet to create mental pictures and evoke the senses. It helps the reader to visualize the scenes described in the poem, such as the beauty of the flowers and the transient nature of life. The imagery of flowers in various stages of growth and decay symbolizes the cycle of life and death.

Answer 3

Literal Meaning

The Persona wishes that he could be as brave as the flowers, which are aware of their allegiance to the earth. They know their place and obey the order, or cycle, of life and death. The persona wishes that he could be this way because he is the opposite, he wants to live forever. The persona wants the flowers to teach him NOT to fear death, but to accept it.

LITERARY DEVICES

1. SIMILE

• Stanza 1, line: The persona is wishing that he could be as brave as the flower. This implies that the persona does not think that he is brave, but a coward in the face of death.
• Stanza 2, line 14: This is another comparison between the persona and the plant
• The persona wishes that he could look death in the face and be cheerful, like the plant again, this emphasizes that he fears death.

2. EUPHEMISM

This phrase is a replacement for the word death. It softens death and makes it appear welcoming and pleasant.

3. IRONY

It is ironic that the flowers look so fresh and alive, when they are facing their very mortality, on the top of a casket. Death is a sad affair, yet the flowers are at their best when ushering people back to the earth.

4. PERSONIFICATION

The persona is speaking directly to the flowers and giving them human qualities, therefore, the whole poem is an example of the use of personification at its best. He even goes as far as to ask the flowers to teach him things that will allow him to acquire their qualities.

IMPORTANT WORDS/ PHRASES

5. 'Gallant'

This word literally means brave or heroic. The word, however, also brings to mind adjectives such as charming and attentive, like a knight would be in olden days. So the plants are not simply brave in their acceptance of death, but they are also gracious.

6. 'harmless show'

The word harmless sticks out in this phrase because it implies that the flowers are demure and quiet in their beauty.

7. 'bier'

This is a movable frame on which a coffin or a corpse is placed before a burial or cremation, or on which they are carried to the grave.

8. 'teach me that my breath like yours may sweeten and perfume my death'

This implies that if death is not feared, then the person will go into death's arms joyfully, without any sorrow, remorse or bitterness.

TONE

The tone of the poem is admiration, because the persona literally admires the flowers for its accepting attitude towards death.

MOOD/ ATMOSPHERE

The mood, or atmosphere of the poem is a pensive one. The persona is thinking about death, how he relates to it versus how others relate to it.

CONTRAST

A contrast in this poem is the persona's fear of death, versus the flowers' acceptance of it.

THEMATIC CATEGORY

Death, nature,

Answer 4

personification,simile