Wind and Window Flower

    LOVERS, forget your love,
    And list to the love of these,
    She a window flower,
    And he a winter breeze.
    When the frosty window veil
    Was melted down at noon,
    And the cagèd yellow bird
    Hung over her in tune,
    He marked her through the pane,
    He could not help but mark,
    And only passed her by,
    To come again at dark.
    He was a winter wind,
    Concerned with ice and snow,
    Dead weeds and unmated birds,
    And little of love could know.
    But he sighed upon the sill,
    He gave the sash a shake,
    As witness all within
    Who lay that night awake.
    Perchance he half prevailed
    To win her for the flight
    From the firelit looking-glass
    And warm stove-window light.
    But the flower leaned aside
    And thought of naught to say,
    And morning found the breeze
    A hundred miles away.

The poem "Wind and Window Flower" by Robert Frost interested me the most because it appears to be a poem about constant conflict in love and in life. As I read the poem, I truly felt a sense of conflict between the two lovers in the poem as well as a slow, painful deterioration between them. In the 3rd and 4th line, I believe that a boy and girl are metaphorically represented as a window flower and the wind. The window flower could be a symbol of a girl who grows in love for the boy and the boy is wild and unpredictable like the wind. The girl could be compared to a flower in the sense that she is warm and dainty while the boy is compared to the winter breeze, symbolizing that he is cold and carefree. This in turn, leads to the lovers' downfall. The end of the poem shows that the two are no longer together, yet still think of one another. For example "And morning found the breeze A hundred miles away"(27-28) show that the lovers are no longer near one another, but the flower is still able to feel the breeze despite the distance between them. The flower feeling the breeze could symbolize the fact that the lovers still feel love for one another despite their downfall and the distance separating them.