THE USAGE OF PLANTS IN POEMS

Poetry has always been literary genre which beautifully expresses human feelings, believes, attitude and love in verse. Words used in daily life change and gain additional meaning. In literary world of poems, flowers along with plants are widely used to characterize human qualities, physical appearance and human nature. They help to paint clear image of people, mostly women to help the reader visualize them. Identification of women with plants, especially flowers is realized through connection between their colour, smell, fragrance, size and form. Dif erent stylistic devices like metaphor, simile, epithet and personification come to help to realize image description. In this article we will analyze some English and Uzbek poems where authors utilize plants to depict people and their feelings.