What are the moral lessons of the poem to the flowers of Heidelberg?

Answer 1

Dr Rizal lived and worked in Germany for years and actually studied in Heidelberg, the beautiful old town of the confluence of the Rivers Neckar and Rhine. He loved its natural beauty and especially the flowers along the banks of the Neckar.

But he was homesick for his native Philippines and in the poem asks the beautiful flowers to act as messengers to take his thoughts of home back there. He asks the flowers to tell everyone back home that whilst he likes Germany his true loyalties are to the Philippines

Answer 2

The moral lessons are to possess gratitude for your home country and love for all of your family and friends. The poem shows a deep longing of the author for his home country. While he can't be at home, he sends a beautiful and fragrant flower with a kiss to land on his home shore. The author speaks of the fact that far away from home, a person loses the fragrance of their home country just like the flower, who will keep its vivid colors, but lose its fragrance over time.

Answer 3

This poem denotes both his love of Heidelberg (and especially the flora), and his intense love and home-sickness for his own country. When he wrote home he sent these flower pressings inside the letters - and his poem relates that with each pressing he kissed it and sent his love with it. He says, however, that the freshness and perfume of the flower will be lost because it has been plucked from its true home ... as has he. And this is how he feels - he needs to be in his own country to be fully alive.

Answer 4

The poem "To the Flowers of Heidelberg" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow teaches us about the impermanence of life and the cycle of birth and decay. It emphasizes the importance of enjoying the beauty of nature while it lasts and appreciating the fleeting moments of happiness and joy. Additionally, the poem conveys the message of finding solace and comfort in the natural world during times of sorrow and loss.

Answer 5

in the poem an introduction which is written by kamla suraiya das is very interesting poem .poetess wants to say about the patriarchal society of india, sexuality, womenhood, importance of languages etc.

Answer 6

Hayley flower of newbrunsick

Answer 7

memory

Answer 8

It is the eye of the nation truly pepito manaloto

Answer 9

Go to my country, go foreign flowers, Planted by the traveler on his way, And there beneath that sky of blue That over my beloved towers, Speak for this traveler to say What faith in his homeland he breathes to you.

(Rizal in this paragraph poetically requests the flowers of Heidelberg to speak of him in the Philippines)

Go and say.... Say that when the dawn First brew your calyx open there Beside the River Necker chill, You saw him standing by you, very still, Reflecting on the primrose flush you wear.

Say that when the morning light Her toll of perfume from you wrung, While playfully she whispered, "How I love you!" He too murmured here above you Tender love songs in his native tongue.

That when the rising sun the height Of Koenigsthul in early morn first spies, And with its tepid light Is pouring life in valley, wood, and grove, He greets the sun as it begins to rise, Which in his native land is blazing straight above.

(These three paragraphs mentions the times of day starting from dawn and the break of sunlight. He beautifully asked the flowers to bear witness to his undying concern for his motherland when at dawn he sings to the flowers native songs in exchange of their gift of natural perfume. And in the morning under the soft light of the early sun he reflects still of his motherland where the same sun now is at its highest... as if he is connected with his motherland through the sun)

And tell them of that day he staid And plucked you from the border of the path, Amid the ruins of the feudal castle, By the River Neckar, and in the sylvan shade,

Tell them what he told you As tenderly he took Your pliant leaves and pressed them in a book, Where now its well-worn pages close enfold you.

(Rizal poetically describes his plan for the flowers to carry his message to his motherland. He plucks them and preserves them in his book)

Carry, carry, flowers of Rhine, Love to every love of mine, Peace to my country and her fertile loam, Virtue to her women, courage to her men, Salute those darling ones again, Who formed the sacred circle of our home.

(His first message to the country is peace, virtue to women, courage to men)

And when you reach that shore, Each kiss I press upon you now, Deposit on the pinions of the wind, And those I love and honor and adore Will feel my kisses carried to their brow.

(He poetically describes his will that his kisses on the flower may be carried by the wind to his loved ones)

Ah, flowers, you may fare through, Conserving still, perhaps, your native hue; Yet, far from Fatherland, heroic loam To which you owe your life, The perfume will be gone from you; For aroma is your soul; it cannot roam Beyond the skies which saw it born, nor e'er forget.

(Here is the paradox: Rizal used the flowers of Heidelberg as his symbol of his love for his motherland. The beauty of the flowers is comparable to the way he looks at our country that anyone who will see the flower may get in touch with Rizal's concern for his motherland. Though noble this may seem to be, Rizal in the last stanza reflected on its utter futility since the flower will no longer be the same when it reaches the country. Its beauty and perfume, which should reflect Rizal's intentions for the country, will long be gone. Why? For it is far from its fatherland.)

Rizal wrote this when he was at Germany. In France and Germany, Rizal was well known and respected. But he may have realized what good will their respect do to his country. What good will this do to the Philippines if he is serving foreign lands and not his own. His verses had a single symbol--The flowers of Heidelberg. But it symbolizes two realities. First, the flowers' beauty symbolizes Rizal's love for his country, and second, the flowers' reduced quality refers to Rizal's useless presence in Another Country. Later he decided to return to the country despite repeated warning from his friends and relatives.

Answer 10

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