Flower-salute
Flower-salute - meaning Summary
A Floral Salute
The speaker presents a small bouquet as an emblem of persistent, intimate affection. Repetition of gestures—stooping, caressing, pressing the flowers—builds an impression of obsessive tenderness and memory focused on a beloved. The nosegay functions as a tangible token carrying repeated expressions of devotion; the poem compresses sustained emotional intensity into a brief, ceremonial offering that links physical contact with enduring emotional attachment.
Read Complete AnalysesThis nosegay,--'twas I dress'd it,-- Greets thee a thousand times! Oft stoop'd I, and caress'd it, Ah! full a thousand times, And against my bosom press'd it A hundred thousand times!
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