The Wild Honey Suckle By Phillip Freneu

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The poem The Wild Honey Suckle written by Phillip Freneau, is about a beautiful Wild Honey Suckle. He talks about the life and death of this flower, how short life is and that death is inevitable. This poem is an example of romanticism. There are five elements in a piece of literature that is romanticism. Love of nature, distrust of civilization, individual freedom, occupation with the supernatural, and nostalgia. This poem contains all five.

The first element of romanticism is love of nature. Love of nature is all over this poem. The entire poem is about a wild honey suckle. It describes the flower as “fair” and “comely”. Then it goes to talk about the environment of he flower by saying “Unseen thy little branches great;”. Lastly, towards the end of the poem it states “I grieve …show more content…

At the beginning of the poem, it describes the environment the flower is living in. It tells us that the flower is disconnected and protected from the outside world. It says in stanza one “no roving foot shall crush thee here” and “No busy hand provoke a tear.” This states that the flower is taken away from and civilization for its protection. The world is not trustworthy to be close with the flower.

The third element of romanticism is individual freedom. The flower is complete free throughout the entire poem. It is secluded from the outside world. It is free to be who it wants to be and for no one to judge. The hunky Suckle is its own self, individual, and free.

The fourth element of romanticism is preoccupation with the supernatural. Many times throughout the poem, Freneau makes references to the supernatural. In the second stanza he says “By nature’s self in white arrayed”. He is making a biblical connection by saying the flower is trying to talk to nature, such as our communication with god. Also in the third stanza he says, “The flowers that did in Eden bloom.” He is making a reference to Eden's garden in the

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