Flirtation Analysis

«   T hen in the second stanza, som ething sensual is present through “the orange peeled” w hich m ay be a m etaphor for a w om an w ho is undressed by som eone...

H ow ever, the reader can w onder W hy an orange? M aybe that the w riter chose this fruit because it is som ething w e alw ays peeled w ith our hands and not w ith knife, w hich is nearer from nature, sensualism and m ore hum anist.

A lso till the tw entieth century, the orange w as considered as a luxury and for this reason w as often offered for C hristm as, so here, it can m ean that the w riter considers w om an as som ething extrem ely precious and fragile w hich is a gracious present from G od to m an.

Furtherm ore orange is a sym bol of paradise, purity and chastity for several civilisations and represents the redem ption or the original sin w hich can be related to love and flirting.

Besides this show s that the poem is addressed to anyone especially, it is quite universal as w ell as the reader can be anyone w ho is attracted by som eone else.

So the speaker sets a sensual atm osphere w ith a blissful tone w hich inspires flirtation and suggests to the reader that he m ust enjoy his life and by m entioning nature, the w riter suggests that he m ust be harm oniously connected w ith earth or at least w ith the w hole w orld.

T hen, thanks to this atm osphere he had settled, the w riter can express his sensual feelings, his tentation and attraction tow ard the beauty of the w orld w hich he seem s to w ish to reach.

A ctually it seem s to the reader that the m ost sim ple things of life are the pow erfullest that exist on earth so that w e don’t have to be that rich to be happy, w e just have to enjoy w hat nature puts at our disposal, and do not search further, this gives a sense of epicurism to the poem .

In the follow ing stanza, on line 5 “a tulip on a w edgw ood plate” can inspire to the reader a notion of carpe diem .

T hus, “a tulip” w ould sym bolize the life that take end as quickly as flow ers ted.

A lso, as tulip produces a natural and zen atm osphere, the reader can picture a butterfly because a tulip quartered w ith petals arranged as butterfly w ings, can look like a butterfly w hose life is ephem eral.

So as previously, the graceful of w om an w as im plied in the poem , it highlights the preciousness of w om an, so m aybe that the m essage here is that m an m ust take care of w om an and do not be abrupt w ith them because of their fragility, their delicacy.

Furtherm ore, the fact that the tulip is on a w edgw ood plate sym bolizes the life w hich is so ephem eral that hum ans often try to m elt w ith vain precious things that are never going to live, nor dead, but to w hich they pay a lot of attention and im portance.

So it highlights the drivel of hum an of being so hypnotise by new technologies, jew elleries… w hile there are things m uch m ore beautiful and above all natural, w hich give m uch sense to life because it bears the pow er of nature and earth w ith it.

T here are things that hum an should pay m uch attention than those others vain things, additionally, all this is highlighted by the space that “w edgw ood plate” takes on the line, com pared to the tulip w hich thus appears as a drop of purity in an ocean of “G od useful” (Baudelaire).

T hen in saying “anything can happen” m aybe that the speaker m eans that betw een a living and som ething lifeless, there is anything that can happen so that w hose tw o things cannot be m atched, there is like a contradiction, the chem ical fusion cannot take place.

Besides, it can also m ean that anything can reach the purity and beauty of w om an w hich is as protected by the precious plate that the reader can picture as the palace, the chateau of w om an represented here by an orange.

In the Fourth stanza, the w riter enhance the sensual atm osphere w ith “ the sun has rolled 2/3. »