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Animals are BORN and so are flowers according to poet Thomas Gray. Do you think of flowers that way?

"Full many a flower is BORN to blush unseen
And waste its fragrance on the desert air"

From Thomas Gray's "Elegy in a Country Churchyard"

So everything alive was BORN then including vegetables? Minerals are formed so is that when they're "born"?

Posted - August 2, 2019
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  • 46117
    To me, anything that comes into creation is born.  


    Definition of born

     (Entry 1 of 2)

    1a : brought forth by or as if by birth The baby was born prematurely. She was born in Germany. a mentality born in the computer age
    b : native —usually used in combination American-born
    c : deriving or resulting from a partnership born of necessity —usually used in combination poverty-born crime


    This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at August 3, 2019 2:35 AM MDT
      August 2, 2019 9:57 AM MDT
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  • 113301
    Ditto! Me too  Sharon. Thank you for the very helpful detail. I ppprecite it! Happy Saturday! :)
      August 3, 2019 2:35 AM MDT
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  • 10750
    No.   I see "born" as meaning coming from a mother and father.  A flower comes from a plant; and while there are male and female plants, I don't consider flowers as their "offspring".
      August 2, 2019 4:52 PM MDT
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  • 113301
    Do you like the poem and the meaning behind it? Poets do take license when they express themselves.  Ever read any poems by e. e. cummings? In this case I think it is an absolutely excellent and elegant poem the meaning of which is haunting to me. How many tremendously gifted people have come and gone about whom we know nothing? It should give one pause methinks. At least it does me! Different strokes. Thank you for your reply Shuhak and Happy Saturday! :) This post was edited by RosieG at August 3, 2019 1:10 PM MDT
      August 3, 2019 2:38 AM MDT
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  • 10750
    To be honest, I found the poem to be very depressing.   But that's just me.
      August 3, 2019 1:13 PM MDT
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