☆诗歌欣赏☆ 野金银花 The Wild Honey Suckle
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The Wild Honey Suckle
by Philip Freneau
Fair flower, that dost so comely grow,
Hid in this silent,dull retreat,
Untouched thy honeyed blossoms blow,
Unseen thy little branches greet:
No roving foot shall crush thee here,
No busy hand provoke a tear.
By Nature's self in white arrayed,
She bade thee shun the vulger eye,
And planted here the guardian shade,
And sent soft waters murmuring by;
Thus quietly thy summer goes,
Thy days declining to repose.
Smit with those chams,that must decay,
I grieve to see your future doom;
They died--nor were those flowers more gay,
The flowers that did in Eden bloom;
Unpitying frosts,and Autumn's power
Shall leave no vestige of thi
s flower.
From morning suns and evening dews
At first thy little being came:
If nothing once,you nothing lose,
For when you die you are the same;
The space between,is but an hour,
The frail duration of flower.
In this poem the poet expressed a keen awareness of the loveliness
and transience of nature.1.He not only meditated on mortality but
also celebrated nature.It implies that life and death are
inevitable law of nature, 'the wild honey suckle'is Philip
Freneau's most widely read natureal lyric with the theme of
transience.2.The poem express the poet's view about the writing
material of American writors.In the author's opinion, the origin
land in America was fiiled with beauty and myth,which could compete
with the rilics of Europ.It revealed on the basis of American
beauty, the American writor can produce good works.
The central image is a nativewild flower,which makes a drastic
difference from elite flower images typical of tradition english
poems. The poem showed strong feelings for the natural beauty,which
was the characteristic of romantic poets.
The poem was written in regular 6-line tetrameter
stanzas,rhyming:ababcc .The structure of the poem is regular,so it
has the neoclassic quality of proportion and balance. Alliteration
,assonance,masculine rhyme used in the poem also produce musical or
melodious and harmonious,which matches the beautyof the flower,the
beauty of poem is partly ambodied in the effects created through
changes in the rhythm. The poem contains iambics trochaics and
spondee. The arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables
suggests the transience of the life of the flower and the poet's
emotional change.the poem is full of sensuous images such as fair
flower visual image,comely grow kinasthetic image and honeyed
blossoms olfactory image.All the images make us feel pity for the
beautiful flower which has only a short life. The line'the sapace
is but an hour'contains a hyperbole stressing and transience of
life. The tone of the poem is both sentimental and
optimistic.
