There Was a Land Where Lived No Violets

There Was a Land Where Lived No Violets - meaning Summary

Love, Silence, and Social Rules

The poem narrates a traveler’s question about a land without violets. Locals explain the flowers once vowed to battle until “some woman freely gives her lover / To another woman,” an impossible release that led to their disappearance. The image compresses themes of romantic rivalry, social constraint, and absence: the violets’ silence becomes a moral or cultural void caused by a condition no one will or can fulfill.