Transcript The Flowers That on The Banks And Walks Did

Songs Of Ourselves
Brittany Le
Procession Of Seasons
The Flowers That On The Banks And Walks Did Grow
Spring, The Sweet Spring
Reasons for choosing these three poems:
o Content
oFigurative Devices
oTheme
Summary of Content
A Procession of Seasons
Describes the four seasons
of life and compares it to
the human life cycle.
The Flowers That on The
Banks And Walks Did Grow
Flowers and trees mourn for the
absence of a woman (Margaret). It
is more likely that she is a
snowbird rather than dead.
Spring, the Sweet Spring
Celebrating spring! Poem
portrays spring as joyous
and pleasant; a time of
rebirth and love.
Content
• Cycles of Life mirror
Cycles of Human Life
Procession of
Seasons
• Seasons Personified
• Seasons/nature portray
The Flowers
That Did absence of woman
Grow…
• Seasons Personified
• Addresses two ages of loves
Spring, The
• Celebrates Spring
Sweet Spring
• Seasons Personified
Figurative
Language
All three poems employ personification.
Each poem personifies nature
to show the fragility of
human life. Certain stages
of life reflect different emotions
and ages that humans experience.
Figurative Language :
Personification
.
Procession of Seasons
“…Lusty spring, all dight in leaves of flowers . . and in
his hand a javelin he did bear...”
“…Winter clothed all in frieze, chattering his teeth for
cold that did him chill…”
“Then came the jolly summer… he …
had hunted the late leopard or the
boar…”
Figurative Language :
Personification
.
The Flowers That On The Banks And Walks Did Grow
“The flowers that on the banks and walks did grow
Crept in the ground, the grass did weep for woe;”
“And those sweet brooks that ran so fair and
clear,
With grief and trouble wrinkled did appear.”
Figurative Language :
Personification
.
Spring, the Sweet Spring
“The fields breathe sweet…”
“… the daisies kiss our
feet...”
THEME
Nature and Life
Procession
•Spring: Young Lover
•Summer: Hunter
•Autumn: Farmer
•Winter: Elder
The Flowers That..
•Nature suffers alone
•Nature saddened by
absence of a person – just
as people are saddened in
the absence of loved ones
Spring…
•Spring celebrated
•Young lovers and Old
lovers enjoy spring –
shows that spring is
enjoyed by all ages
Personal Interpretation
In the poem “Spring, the Sweet Spring” I wonder if Autumn and Winter are looked down upon because of the era in one’s life these
seasons would apply to (later years). This ties into the poem “The Flowers That On The Banks And Walks Did Grow” because nature
transitions into autumn and winter when a woman leaves. Both seasons represent a time of loss, just as autumn is the introduction to
winters loss of leaves on a tree. The woman eventually returns in poem 2, alluding that she's a snowbird. But metaphorically, she is
spring; she is summer. She’s apart t of the “Procession of Seasons” which represents a life cycle. She’s “reborn” so to say.