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Walter Crane's illustration from Baby's Own Aesop, 1887. The Fir and the Bramble is one of Aesop's Fables and is numbered 304 in the Perry Index. [1] It is one of a group in which trees and plants debate together, which also includes The Trees and the Bramble and The Oak and the Reed.
It stands in contrast to those plant fables like The Oak and the Reed and The Trees and the Bramble in which the protagonists arrogantly debate with each other. But in this story, the lowly amaranth praises the rose for its beauty and reputation and is answered, equally humbly, that a rose's life is brief while the amaranth (the name of which ...
Anthropomorphic cat guarding geese, Egypt, c. 1120 BCE. Fable is a literary genre defined as a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized, and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly as a concise maxim or ...
The Trees and the Bramble is a composite title which covers a number of fables of similar tendency, ultimately deriving from a Western Asian literary tradition of debate poems between two contenders. [1] Other related plant fables include The Oak and the Reed and The Fir and the Bramble.
When the fable figured in 16th century emblem books, more emphasis was put on the moral lesson to be learned, to which the story acted as a mere appendage.Thus Hadrianus Junius tells the fable in a four-line Latin poem and follows it with a lengthy commentary, part of which reads: "By contrast we see the reed obstinately holding out against the power of cloudy storms, and overcoming the onrush ...
The adapted fable of "The Elm and the Vine, an illustration from Robert Dodsley's Select Fables of Esop, 1764 That the story was still known in England is suggested by Robert Dodsley's chance reference, that 'the gourd may reproach the pine' (the word Whitney used was 'deride'), in his essay on the fable genre, [ 11 ] although he did not choose ...
Theophrastus's Enquiry into Plants or Historia Plantarum (Ancient Greek: Περὶ φυτῶν ἱστορία, Peri phyton historia) was, along with his mentor Aristotle's History of Animals, Pliny the Elder's Natural History and Dioscorides's De materia medica, one of the most important books of natural history written in ancient times, and like them it was influential in the Renaissance.
Chuck the Plant: A plant found in several of LucasArts' games. Elowan: A race of plant-like creatures in Starflight computer game. [37] Fire Flower: A flower from the Mario series that transforms Mario into Fire Mario. Flowah: A sunflower-like monster from My Singing Monsters. Flowey: A sentient flower who is one of the main antagonists of ...