One day unexpectedly, when I was presented with this assignment, I stumbled upon the poem The Seed Shop, which was written by Muriel Stuart in the early nineteen hundreds.

“HERE in a quiet and dusty room they lie,

Faded as crumbled stone or shifting sand,

Forlorn as ashes, shriveled, scentless, dry--

Meadows and gardens running through my hand.

Dead that shall quicken at the call of Spring,

Sleepers to stir beneath June's magic kiss,

Though birds pass over, unremembering,

And no bee seek here roses that were his.

In this brown husk a dale of hawthorn dreams,

A cedar in this narrow cell is thrust

That will drink deeply of a century's streams,

These lilies shall make summer on my dust.

Here in their safe and simple house of death,

Sealed in their shells a million roses leap;

Here I can blow a garden with my breath,

And in my hand a forest lies asleep.”

Through the course of this paper, the main focus wil

Though the theme might be disputed, there are many details of the poem that are clear. For example, the vocabulary is modern, simple, and clear. Secondly, although death is mentioned or implied several times in the poem such as “here in their safe and simple house of death,” the poem is not a sad piece, but rather an optimistic piece of literature. Following that line, the author was sure to include “sealed in their shells, a million rose leap,” in order to give hope for the future of the seeds. Last but not least, every other line of the poem rhymes with that of the line before it, making the poem pleasing to the ears.

l be exploring probable interpretations of this poem, in order to find which possible meaning is most effective. In order to properly analyze this poem, other literary works such as To Blossoms, by Robert Herrick and also, Intimations of Immortality, by William Wordsworth will be used in comparison with The Seed Shop.

In conclusion, after an in depth study of Muriel Stuart’s poem The Seed Shop, I have realized that no one reader’s interpretation is necessarily correct. Was Stuart trying to convince her readers to believe that death, resurrection, and immortality were possible to more than just seeds? Honestly, I am not sure. But, I do positively know that every reader brings with them their own thoughts and beliefs. Sometimes, poetry is just to short too know exactly what the author trying to say. The correct and most effective interpretation of Muriel Stuart’s poem The Seed Shop, is what the poem means to you, the reader.

But never the less, similar to Stuart’s poem in Wordworth’s poem Intimation of Immortality, he also explored the possibility of death, resurrection, an

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