FLOWERS SYMBOLIZING HUMAN FEATURES IN ENGLISH ROMANTIC POETRY

Abstract

      Floral imagery has been used symbolically in many branches including art, literature and cultural manners since the down of human ingenuity in an attempt to evoke particular meaning. Symbols of flowers far more exceed beyond their common representation of natural processes, particularly, birth, beauty and death in literary works. They are mainly associated with romance, love, temptation, eternity and femininity in a variety of way in poems, especially flowers such as roses. This article intends to find out exquisite applications of flowers in English romantic poetry and analyze explicitly the symbols they carried.