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love's wound
Metaphor
Act 2,
Scene 1
Lines 166-168

A metaphor depicting the deflowering of a virgin in Act 2, Scene 1 of myshakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream.

Oberon

It fell upon a little western flower,
Before, milk-white, now purple with love's wound,
And maidens call it “love-in-idleness.”

Oberon's description of the deflected arrow hitting a flower is a graphic metaphor of the deflowering of a virgin.  The arrow represents the male genetalia and the milk-white flower represents a virgin.  The flower turns purple from the blood flowing from "love's wound", the virgin's broken hymen.