Thus, her life, like the structure of the poem is broken up into several shorter periods of living in different places. This reflects how the persona leads a somewhat nomadic lifestyle, considering that she is leaving after only 5 weeks. Note how the poem is written, broken up into several stanzas with few lines. Despite her initial indifference to it, she is drawn to the orchid and its petals and decides to pluck the blooms of the orchid and preserve it between the pages of a book, hoping to one day understand a deeper meaning behind the orchids’ resilience. The orchid is stubborn, and does not die. Just like this ‘five-week life,’ she expects it to wither away and have no further meaning after becoming but an insignificant memory. She expected this orchid to be merely something she would discard after her period of renting/living in her current house. She seems perplexed by its resilience and its refusal to wilt despite only being watered once. So much so, in fact, that she only watered it once when it had been in full bloom. This flower was given to her by a friend who compulsively gives flowers as gifts, and thus, she doesn’t think of the orchid as special in any way. Now, all that remains in her space is an orchid in which she has found no value. The persona seems to be moving out of a house after renting it for a five-week period.
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