Despot By Edith Neesbitt

The poem Despot by Edith Nesbitt is about how the gardener is like a ruler. A ruler decides what is fair and unfair. A ruler also decides the fate of others. "since he had not set them there, He hated them for being fair." The speaker of the poem is the poet explaining how the gardener favors the flowers over the weeds. "he coldly loved the flowers that lived as he approved." The weeds and the flowers are symbols for two different kinds of people. How there are two different types of people one that follows the rules and one that doesn't follow the rules. For example " He saw the wildings flower more brave and bright than any cultured slave; Yet, since he had not set them there, He hated them for being fair." "So he uprooted, one by one."