Wind and Window Flower

Wind and Window Flower 

By Robert Frost

  

    LOVERS, forget your love,

    And list to the love of these,

    She a window flower,

    And he a winter breeze.

    When the frosty window veil

    Was melted down at noon,

    And the cagèd yellow bird

    Hung over her in tune,

    He marked her through the pane,

    He could not help but mark,

    And only passed her by,

    To come again at dark.

    He was a winter wind,

    Concerned with ice and snow,

    Dead weeds and unmated birds,

    And little of love could know.

    But he sighed upon the sill,

    He gave the sash a shake,

    As witness all within

    Who lay that night awake.

    Perchance he half prevailed

    To win her for the flight

    From the firelit looking-glass

    And warm stove-window light.

    But the flower leaned aside

    And thought of naught to say,

    And morning found the breeze

    A hundred miles away.

I chose “Wind and Window Flower” because it displays a love in nature that is wanted, but is not meant to be. Robert Frost describes how the wind had an interest in the window flower, but he only passed her by.  I believe Frost was describing the wind as a person that was in love with the window flower, knowing little of love the wind was to hesitant to approach the window flower. Frost also describes the window flower as being shy and speechless; leaving the wind pondering if he would ever love.  

                Frost uses Imagery to convey the weather inside and outside of the house, the appearance of the window the wind was looking at the flower through, and audio to describe how nervous the wind was when he sighed. Foster also uses imagery to explain how far away the wind was from the flower after displaying his love to the flower. By giving the wind and the window flower human emotions, Foster is giving nature a since of personification.