To The Fringed Gentian Sparknotes

An Analysis of To the Fringed Gentian

Written by William Cullen Bryant, the poem is a creative description of the beauty of nature, which the writer encountered on mountains while in Massachusetts. He describes the nature of Fringed Gentian, which is a bright-blue flower falling and blooming depending on seasons; information technology blooms in late autumn, a time when nigh flowers take fallen already.

The writers tone gets calm as he describes the beauty of nature as seasons change; he too gets spiritual insight comparing the falling of a season to another similar life and death. It starts with a description of the blossom, which is giving a sense of optimism, but at the end, the clarification gets pessimistic equally the poet uses two tones in the poem; reverent and solemn.

The appearance of the flower is adored, but the behavior of the flower is seen to have some negative note; especially, the fact that it blooms tardily in autumn. By observing the beliefs of the flower with flavor, the poet makes a wish for his life by saying "Promise, blossoming within my heart, May await to heaven as I depart".

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In the first stanza, the poet gives a description of the flower; he says that it blooms late in fall, it is bluish-colored, and that it opens early with the disappearance of the nighttime. The second stanza describes the uniqueness of the flower in that information technology blooms when other flowers are falling; Fringed Gentian does not blossom in springs with other flowers. The third stanza is a description of the period of the flower bloom; a menses when most things are dying. The woods become bare while birds have flown away; the bloom thus has a lonely appearance.

The fourth stanza is a clarification of the flower advent during its flavour; its beauty is adored. The 5th stanza, which is the last stanza, ends the poem with the poet making a wish for his life past comparison his life with that of the Fringed Gentian.

The poem is made of four lines in each stanza (a tetrameter); it is rich in imagery, metaphors, personification, and similes. At that place is also rhyme and use of consonance in the stanzas making the poem an interesting piece of literature.