Lodged
Lodged - meaning Summary
Vulnerability and Quiet Endurance
"Lodged" presents a brief, vivid scene in which wind and rain batter a garden, forcing flowers to bow and lie "lodged — though not dead." The speaker observes with empathy, identifying with the flowers' humbled, battered but surviving condition. The poem compresses a meditation on vulnerability and resilience: external forces can overwhelm appearance and posture without ending life. Its tone is quietly compassionate, shifting the reader from an image of damage to an affirmation of endurance and shared feeling between observer and natural world.
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