This is an enchanting, information dense talk that starts to explore flowers in Medieval culture. Not simply as symbols for other things, but also as—flowers...Very haunting use of strange strangers...
For me all poems about flowers are also about poetry, because a “flower” is a trope (hence the term “anthology” from the Greek anthos, flower. Hence “flowery language.”
But flowers and tropes share a deeper similarity, because they are both plots of algorithms, as I describe in this talk.
Here's Dudley Moore playing a Liberace-style Beethoven introducing Wordsoworth (Peter Cook) reciting “Daffodils,” with some flower girls...