A Rosebud

Last but not least:

 

“A Rosebud”

-Robert Burns

 

This one felt like a beautiful simile to the gentle tug between youth and age. It starts out with him admiring a rosebud early in the morning when the sun is just rising and the red of the light catches the dew on the bud. Then it shifts inside its bush where a bird is waking up among the dew. She watches her babies who are also waking up and making noise to wake the rest of the neighborhood. After that, Burns describes the care and gentleness of the mother bird and the youth of the morning rosebud. He says the rosebud will go on to watch over the mother until the evening, symbolizing that youth will watch and learn from their elders until their elders’ ends.

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