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Nobody knows this little Rose

Emily Dickinson

Nobody knows this little Rose-

It might a pilgrim be

Did I not take it from the ways

And lift it up to thee.

Only a Bee will miss it-

Only a Butterfly,

Hastening from far journey-

On its breast to lie-

Only a Bird will wonder-

Only a Breeze will sigh-

Ah Little Rose-how easy

For such as thee to die!

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1 Analysis 1
This poem is a great comparison towards life and death. The rose represents the
human life. In life, you go through many obstacles and journeys. You give your all
to the world but yet you dont receive much back. When you are alive those who
needs you will notice, care, and appreciate you. The bee and the butterfly needs
the rose, this is a symbol of your friends and family. They need you so they love
and cherish you. The bird and the breeze represent those who do not know you.
They sometimes wonder about you but they just pass on by, like a breeze. You
hasten from a far journey, means that you have been through many things in life.
On its breast to lie means that after all you put up through life living in this world
you have to lay down and give up on life. When you are dead, your death will only
affect those who care for you. It will not affect those who dont notice you in the
world. So basically it is not that much of a big deal if you are dead and alive. It is
easy for you to die because those who care will still be there and those who dont
care will remain not caring. The rose, you, give your all, your life, to the world yet
not the whole world notices you.

1 Analysis 2
Nobody knows this little Rose
It might a pilgrim be
Did I not take it from the ways
And lift it up to thee.
Only a Bee will miss it
Only a Butterfly,
Hastening from far journey
On its breast to lie
Only a Bird will wonder
Only a Breeze will sigh
Ah Little Rose how easy
For such as thee to die!

Analysis:
This poem says that Emily Dickinson has picked a rose on her way and knows that
it doesnt belong to her. She thinks that a bee or a butterfly might miss the rose,
meaning that they might have fed on the nectar from it. The next line after that
says that only a bird might notice and wonder, meaning that the bird might have
eaten the bee or the butterfly which came to the rose. The last two lines can be
interpreted literally, the rose, or it can be interpreted with humans. The poem
here says that the rose was missing, meaning it died, but it doesnt really matter
because there are other roses. If it is interpreted with humans, it can mean that
death doesnt matter because there are plenty of other people. We can love other
people if someone we know dies. Every other line in this poem rhymes.

1 Analysis 3
aWhat does we usually think of when we come across a rose in literature? Beauty
-- even a bit of glamor perhaps. In "Nobody Knows this Little Rose" Emily
Dickinson humanizes the rose and makes it a vulnerable little thing, someone who
could die without us ever noticing. What is the significance of it being a rose, and
not some other living thing?

Some suggest that the rose stands for Emily herself -- someone who possesses
some lovely qualities, but could die and simply be forgotten. It could well be, but
what I get from the poem is a strong sense of empathy for another.

I am realizing that I now have several poems with personified flowers: by Robert
Frost, Robert Service, Emily Dickinson. They could make an interesting text set!

1 Analysis 4
aThis is yet another of the many poems Dickinson writes that seems sweet in
tone and in the objects mentioned, while the poem actually contains a darker
content. It reads much like William Blake's poem "The Lamb", while containing
echoes of the "The Tyger". Dickinson chooses for her subject the "little rose," a
seeming young bud just coming into bloom and picked before its time.

The speaker in this poem seeks to assure the rose through a recounting of the
supposedly few that will actually miss this young rose. Dickinson's use of "only" in
lines five, six, nine, and ten are meant by the speaker to smooth over the many
that will miss the rose. The repetition, however, is Dickinson's way of illustrating
just how much this seemingly expendible rose will be missed. The repetition of
"only" follows a pattern of three, an extremely common number of repetitions in
writing, plus an additional echo of "only" that greater magnifies the loss of the
rose.

Dickinson draws out the theme of expendibility in this poem, and the reader can't
help but wonder if the real subject of death is a rose or a person. Certainly the
metaphor can be drawn to include all life. The final lines conclude "Ah Little Rose--
how easy / For such as thee to die!", which begs the question: is any death easy?
Even the most benign small roselet clearly has a place in the world and is missed
by bee, butterfly, bird, and breeze (the alliteration Dickinson employs also
heightens the impact of the repetition and enforces the ties the rose has to more
than itself). Isn't all life interconnected? And therefore, each small loss would
affect life on a much larger scale.

more on this poem and the theme of control in the future...

1 Analysis 5
I wonder how the recipients of flowers felt about these little accompanying
poems. I read somewhere that during her life, Emily was more known for her
gardening than for her poems. This one might make the recipient a bit uneasy
with its almost maudlin ending where the "Little Rose" dies, disappointing not only
Bee, Bird, and Breeze but poor Butterfly who made a long journey just to lie on
the breast of the flower.
But this is a parable of the life and death of humans as well. A loved one may
die, to be held up to God, in the prime of her beauty, missed by friends near and
far. Yet the death of just another flower, just another common person--despite the
joy their beauty brings, is a small matter. The allusion to God comes early as the
second line suggests the Rose might be a pilgrim, or at least might have become
a pilgrim had not its life been cut short. Dickinson even adopts the role of the
Savior by plucking the little pilgrim from its 'ways' and lifting it up--to God. She is
the one who decides which flower will live and which will die.
The poem is knit together by several devices:
- repeated rhymes, primarily those that rhyme with Bee and Butterfly
- alliteration: Bee, butterfly, breast, Bird, Breeze
- and repeated phrases ("Only a ...").
The first four lines use Ballad form and trip off the tongue with their lilting
iambs. But the next and mirroring lines begin dactyllaly, and that gives the long
"o" of "Only" extra emphasis: "Only a Bee will miss it-- / Only a Butterfly. This
underscores the irony. We are intended to bemoan the loss of Bee and Butterfly,
Bird and Breeze--just as we would pity those mourning a dear departed one.

If I had received a rose with that poem I would feel a bit guilty. But then I would
gratefully tape the poem above my desk.

1 Analysis 7
Dear Fans of Emily! This is a fairly straightforward poem with basic reference to a
small rose. The rose represents either a "rose" or the symbolic "rose" as reference
to spiritual attainment. To me the rose represents Emily as a "pilgrim" in
Massachusetts.

Emily being ever the naturalist is looking at the entire cylce of life here. The rose
represent life "unplucked" from the bush. However, once plucked the rose dies.
"How Easy, for such as thee, to die". It is Emily's usual mode of creating a friend
from the rose, since in her loneliness, she tends to give inanimate objects a
human personified touch. Emily really sees the whole life-cycle of this little rose,
and feels empathy towards the flower's plight. The rose, so beautiful, is hardly
noticed in the massive world and scheme of things. Emily feels the rose will not be
noticed by butterflies or bees when it is no longer.

When I read this poem I sense a very frilly embroidered lace with bees and
butterflies and plucked rose. The rose being very fragile only lasting a few days
when taken from the bush. So everything in life must die. Emily is reiterating this
fact as if she has to convince herself as to the fragility of all life. As if her life is in
fact very fragile and temporal.

Emily too senses she, like the young rose bloom will die without notice, without
her life meaning a thing. Maybe she felt this way when her poems were rejected
earlier in her poetry career. Maybe someone close to her is dying, or Emily is
feeling alone in her belief system; perhaps not relating as well to others as she
should? Difficult to say for sure, and whether or not any diary could verify this.
And Emily is pondering all of life's mysteries while gathering this rose. For whom
is this rose for, one of her friends she tries to bribe with poetry and nose gay?
Certainly it would depend upon when this poem was written and if we can, in fact,
place this poem's sympathetic and empathetic tone to any one event in Emily's
life at the particular time when this poem was written. Subtle and sweet poem,
Miss Emily! Oh I'd love to know what mystery this poem did reveal to you and
what exactly was happening in your life when you wrote it! Secrets are always
held close to the heart it seems; a beau? Will we ever know?

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