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The poems, "__A Friend is Like..__, "__A Friendship is But a Flower__," and "__A Friend Like You__," theme's are all based upon friendship and the importance of it. When searching for poems written around this theme I found many of them, and realized this was because friendship is a very important thing and can be expressed more clearly when made into poetry. These poems are all related in a sense that they each bring up that friends stick with you no matter where life may go, and that friendship is the greatest, most natural gift of all. I also observed that in two of the poems that I selected, it compared friendship to a flower. I think this can be looked at in more than one way; a flower is beautiful, natural, and delicate just like friendship, and also as time passes and your friendship blooms, so does the flower. I found this image of a flower helped me deepen my understanding of friendship and made me think about what this may mean. In the poem "A Friend is Like.." the poet compared friendship to many different things. I found this helpful because I am visual, and the images the poet gave the readers really helped widen my understanding of the poem, and what friendship really means. In the poem "A Friendship is But a Flower", the poet used a pattern where he started with the same line in ever stanza, which was "A Friendship is But a Flower." I enjoyed this poem because it made me realize how the most natural and smallest things can be the most important in life, and made me appreciate them more. In the poem, "A Friend" the poet included more complex lines into his poems. Personally, this was my favorite poem because the lines that were put into this poem required me to think about what he was saying and how they related to friendship which was interesting. Overall, after analyzing these three poems, I have learned to appreciate smaller things, and I also have learned how to play around with words and figure out what mysterious ones may mean.