The Gardener 57: Plucked Your Flower
The Gardener 57: Plucked Your Flower - meaning Summary
Loss Beyond Consolation
The speaker recounts taking a beautiful thing from the world and suffering a lasting hurt: the flower fades but the thorn’s pain endures. Though the world will still offer other flowers with scent and pride, the speaker feels their season for gathering is gone. The poem sketches regret and irretrievable loss, contrasting transient beauty with persistent inner pain and a sense of missed opportunity and distance from future consolations.
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