Envy 🌳

• “blind and senseless tree” 


  Personification refers to people not seeing there own beauty due to being blinded by society's standards.
• “Nor after gentle shower, had ever smelled its rose’s scent”

  The rose has missed its own gifts and talents.

  Roses tend to smell better and nicer after rain but no other flowers do
• ”this rose tree is not made to bear” 


  ’this’ suggests that mary lamb is referring to a certain rose tree.

  rose tree is a metaphor for the envious person suggesting that they want other flowers but cannot have it therefore meaning it’s a hopeless dream