The rain to the wind said,
‘You push and I’ll pelt.’
They so smote the garden bed
That the flowers actually knelt,
And lay lodged–though not dead.
I know how the flowers felt.

Analysis, meaning and summary of Robert Frost's poem Lodged

7 Comments

  1. Ted Boltz says:

    I have the Title of this poem tattooed on my back yes the poem is about hardships yes the poem is about bullying and others things that hold us back. What about the sense of irony involved here the rain and the wind are all part of the flowers survival. That which does not kill us makes us stronger, if we have no bullies to face or hardships then why would we ever fight? What would we have to strive for? Frost could of easily said the flame or sleet damaged the flower. Why the rain and the wind? When the war is fought and your enemies have all perished we loose are meaning for existence. The hardships we face keep us going!!!!!!

  2. Susy Glossop says:

    My mother kept this poem in her purse. She was a gardener but during the last 9 years of her life, which ended on 20 September 2008, illness prevented her from doing as much as she would like. Her friend told us today that Mum had felt like the flowers all that time. Paul’s sentiment so captures that which Mum and her friend felt, we thank you.

  3. Paul says:

    This beautiful poem was the basis of a sermon at our church this past sunday and the message was one of Job. Many hurts, pains and sorrows will befall us duriing our lifetime. We will be battered by human loss of a loved one, a divorce, death of those dearest to us, retrenchment and separation. But from the pain and ashes eventually we will arise! Not dead but mearely bending and sheltering until we have the human strength and above all help and faith to arise again, blossom again and seek to fulfill our god given destiny. With love and faith we will resurrect our self and our soul.

  4. joe says:

    I think it is really cool to write this poem

  5. Chris says:

    I feel as if he writing about lifes hardships, and how it gets you down. It leaves you tattered and scared, but after it’s dowsing, you are still alive, and that’s all that matters, to go on, living another day.

  6. Joe Jarvis says:

    Wow! I cant believe no one got this. BULLYING! The rain and the wind syncronized into a storm and knocked the flowers around and drowned them with water. Then the storm cleared out and left the helpless flowers there to suffer and slowly die. So apparently, this could have a couple of meanings, he might’ve been comparing it to a hit and run, bullying, or maybe just life’s bumps in the road as you travel through to the end suffering life to reach death.

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