The poem:To a Shrub
by Ee Tiang Hong
Is about the plant Bougainvillea,
a flower also know as
Paper flower (Bunga kertas) in Bahasa.
I analyze this poem in my university days
And why you ask I mention this poem here?
Well, it's a great poem by a local Malaysian poet,
And the sight of the flower under my Block made me
Reminiscent about this poem.
Describing the flower as
“What happy combination
Of the hardy and the beautiful”
Beauty and hardy /tough
an unusual combination
But that is essentially what it is,
It can survive
“Through drought and monsoon”
And it also have “conceal fierce thorns”
but its still a flower with its beauty
when everything around is brown and yellow,
its still green lush and beautiful.
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