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The Poem Petals by Amy Lowell

The poem "Petals" by Amy Lowell uses imagery of flower petals floating down a stream as a metaphor for the journey of life. It describes how people scatter the "petals" of their hearts - their hopes, dreams, and joys - into the stream of life as flower petals are scattered by the wind. Though we watch them begin their journey, we do not know where their path may lead or how far they will travel, just as the petals float out of view. In the end, while people continue down the stream of time, the scattered petals of their experiences remain with them through memory, just as a flower's fragrance lingers even after its petals are gone.

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The Poem Petals by Amy Lowell

The poem "Petals" by Amy Lowell uses imagery of flower petals floating down a stream as a metaphor for the journey of life. It describes how people scatter the "petals" of their hearts - their hopes, dreams, and joys - into the stream of life as flower petals are scattered by the wind. Though we watch them begin their journey, we do not know where their path may lead or how far they will travel, just as the petals float out of view. In the end, while people continue down the stream of time, the scattered petals of their experiences remain with them through memory, just as a flower's fragrance lingers even after its petals are gone.

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The poem Petals by Amy Lowell

Life is a stream
On which we strew
Petal by petal the flower of our heart;
The end lost in dream,
They float past our view,
We only watch their glad, early start.
Freighted with hope,
Crimsoned with joy,
We scatter the leaves of our opening rose;
Their widening scope,
Their distant employ,
We never shall know. And the stream as it flows
Sweeps them away,
Each one is gone
Ever beyond into infinite ways.
We alone stay
While years hurry on,
The flower fared forth, though its fragrance still stays.

The meaning of the poem


Petals by Amy Lowell shows the connection between flower petals, a humans life and relationships.
The poem visits all of the different emotions of human experience and relates those experiences to petals.
Petals explains how life is like a stream and we travel down the stream, as do petals. Life is a stream/
On which we strew/ Petal by petal the flowers of our heart:/ The end lost in dream,/ They float past our
view,/ We only watch their glad, early start./ People flow down a stream and move by dreams, hope, and
joy. The petals of our hearts travel down the stream relates to how true petals flow down streams. No one
knows where the petals will go, the humans hearts petals travel down a stream too and end in a dream.
The Poem uses images to make connections between humans and petals. The images express emotions
and feelings in the poem. Lowell relates the heart of a human to the petals of a flower in the poem
Petals.

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