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.