May-flower
May-flower - meaning Summary
Small Bloom, Large Significance
The poem celebrates a modest spring flower that is small, fragrant, and initially concealed in April but open and honest in May. The speaker treats it as intimate and universally familiar, linked to moss, knolls, and the robin, suggesting a place in the human heart. Its simple beauty refreshes nature and asserts a kind of youthful renewal, implying that such fresh life displaces old forms or traditions.
Read Complete AnalysesPink, small, and punctual, Aromatic, low, Covert in April, Candid in May, Dear to the moss, Known by the knoll, Next to the robin In every human soul. Bold little beauty, Bedecked with thee, Nature forswears Antiquity.
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