A Flower will not trouble her, it has so small a Foot,
A Flower will not trouble her, it has so small a Foot, And yet if you compare the Lasts, Hers is the smallest Boot --
Emily Dickinson
A Flower will not trouble her, it has so small a Foot, And yet if you compare the Lasts, Hers is the smallest Boot --
At first, the poem seems to be about a flower that’s too delicate to bother anyone—its “Foot” is so tiny that it barely makes an impression. But then the speaker introduces a quiet surprise: if you set the flower’s shoe last beside the one belonging to “her,” the woman’s is the smallest of all.
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