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Sick Rose, The Analysis
Author: Poetry of William Blake Type: Poetry Views: 7145
O Rose, thou art sick!
The invisible worm
That flies in the night,
In the howling storm,
Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy:
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.
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I think that this poem is about the film titanic!! :)
| Posted on 2009-11-10 | by a guest
I think that this poem is about the film titanic!! :)
| Posted on 2009-11-10 | by a guest
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Worm can also mean an insect (hence "that flies in the night") and to Blake may not have had phallic resonance. Most of what is written here is projection - Blake was writing a poem about a rose sickening with green / black fly and like all great poets produced a transcendant work of art in the process which binds itself to our all too human lusts and fears...
Pure genius.
| Posted on 2009-10-27 | by a guest
Worm can also mean an insect (hence "that flies in the night") and to Blake may not have had phallic resonance. Most of what is written here is projection - Blake was writing a poem about a rose sickening with green / black fly and like all great poets produced a transcendant work of art in the process which binds itself to our all too human lusts and fears...
Pure genius.
| Posted on 2009-10-27 | by a guest
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this poem is so heart provoking and this is all about beauty and its destruction everything that is beautiful is immortal this is a cycle of life blake is just writing about this cycle...
| Posted on 2009-07-26 | by a guest
this poem is so heart provoking and this is all about beauty and its destruction everything that is beautiful is immortal this is a cycle of life blake is just writing about this cycle...
| Posted on 2009-07-26 | by a guest
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Can't help feeling that one of the themes that runs through this poem is that everything that is beautiful has to undergo change/ageing/dying etc (ie. the rose in its perfection) & is thus ultimately doomed. I think however, it relates particularly to something which is glorious but also forbidden & the secrecy is the weapon of destruction. Such as a sexual obsession or a sexual act that is considered wrong within a culture. I am also wondering (sexual imagery apart) whether that 'invisible worm' might relate to a soul sickness(ie. depression)that takes hold & sometimes having no seeming outward reason becomes a sick secret - the beloved affliction.
| Posted on 2009-06-27 | by a guest
Can't help feeling that one of the themes that runs through this poem is that everything that is beautiful has to undergo change/ageing/dying etc (ie. the rose in its perfection) & is thus ultimately doomed. I think however, it relates particularly to something which is glorious but also forbidden & the secrecy is the weapon of destruction. Such as a sexual obsession or a sexual act that is considered wrong within a culture. I am also wondering (sexual imagery apart) whether that 'invisible worm' might relate to a soul sickness(ie. depression)that takes hold & sometimes having no seeming outward reason becomes a sick secret - the beloved affliction.
| Posted on 2009-06-27 | by a guest
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in fact i do believe that the speaker is addressing his lover by referring to the rose and of course by mentioning the sick which mean simly that he is loosing his lover for so many things.
| Posted on 2009-06-20 | by a guest
in fact i do believe that the speaker is addressing his lover by referring to the rose and of course by mentioning the sick which mean simly that he is loosing his lover for so many things.
| Posted on 2009-06-20 | by a guest
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in fact i do believe that the speaker is addressing his lover by referring to the rose and of course by mentioning the sick which mean simly that he is loosing his lover for so many things.
| Posted on 2009-06-20 | by a guest
in fact i do believe that the speaker is addressing his lover by referring to the rose and of course by mentioning the sick which mean simly that he is loosing his lover for so many things.
| Posted on 2009-06-20 | by a guest
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The rose does indeed refer to the woman and the "bed of crimson joy" most likely to her genitalia. If the worm is a phallic symbol and we take into account Blake's views on free love (the idea that love between consenting adults should not be controlled by the church) then it seems more than likely that the "dark secret love" refers to the need for the couple to conduct their affair privately to avoid the disapproval of the church.
The secrecy and not the relationship itself if what is destroying the couple and the fact that they are being told by the establishment to ignore their natural urges, making them "sick"
| Posted on 2009-01-18 | by a guest
The rose does indeed refer to the woman and the "bed of crimson joy" most likely to her genitalia. If the worm is a phallic symbol and we take into account Blake's views on free love (the idea that love between consenting adults should not be controlled by the church) then it seems more than likely that the "dark secret love" refers to the need for the couple to conduct their affair privately to avoid the disapproval of the church.
The secrecy and not the relationship itself if what is destroying the couple and the fact that they are being told by the establishment to ignore their natural urges, making them "sick"
| Posted on 2009-01-18 | by a guest
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This poem is basically about a "rose", representing the female being sick. Due to the corruption of the "invisible worm"'s "dark secret".
| Posted on 2008-10-01 | by a guest
This poem is basically about a "rose", representing the female being sick. Due to the corruption of the "invisible worm"'s "dark secret".
| Posted on 2008-10-01 | by a guest
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The poem is centrally sexual, conjuring phallic and yonic images with referenceto words such as the "ROSE", "nigh" "bed". The speaker wonders at the secret destruction of the rose by the “invisible worm”. Which can be interpreted as a sexually transmitted disease caught from "his dark secret love" namely a prostitute or perhaps a mistress.
| Posted on 2008-05-19 | by a guest
The poem is centrally sexual, conjuring phallic and yonic images with referenceto words such as the "ROSE", "nigh" "bed". The speaker wonders at the secret destruction of the rose by the “invisible worm”. Which can be interpreted as a sexually transmitted disease caught from "his dark secret love" namely a prostitute or perhaps a mistress.
| Posted on 2008-05-19 | by a guest
.: The Sick Rose, A critique :.
I feel that the idea of the rose representing England is most definately something your mind first conjures up; however i feel the rest of the poem hardly supports this idea. Perhaps it is "all too convincing" simply becuase many of his other poems took on this theme. I like to think of this poem as a sexual one; the imagery pointed out in previous posts is quite self explanitary. Perhaps we could link this aspect of the poem to London where he talks of the "harlots curse" and "new born infants
| Posted on 2008-01-27 | by a guest
I feel that the idea of the rose representing England is most definately something your mind first conjures up; however i feel the rest of the poem hardly supports this idea. Perhaps it is "all too convincing" simply becuase many of his other poems took on this theme. I like to think of this poem as a sexual one; the imagery pointed out in previous posts is quite self explanitary. Perhaps we could link this aspect of the poem to London where he talks of the "harlots curse" and "new born infants
| Posted on 2008-01-27 | by a guest
.: The Sick Rose :.
I'm not so sure. I think the rose symbolises love, and a passionate relationship, and the idea of the rose being sick symbolises the love between the couple festering. I don't think it's necessarily a sexual poem (although the 'bed of crimson joy' obviously points to this aspect of a relationship), but in my opinion, it is showing what damage jealousy can do, the feeling being represented as a worm - burrowing, deep rooted and silently powerful.
| Posted on 2007-10-16 | by a guest
I'm not so sure. I think the rose symbolises love, and a passionate relationship, and the idea of the rose being sick symbolises the love between the couple festering. I don't think it's necessarily a sexual poem (although the 'bed of crimson joy' obviously points to this aspect of a relationship), but in my opinion, it is showing what damage jealousy can do, the feeling being represented as a worm - burrowing, deep rooted and silently powerful.
| Posted on 2007-10-16 | by a guest
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The above analysis is not entirely correct. This poem expresses Blake's contempt for 19th century society, the sick rose is a symbol of England's corruption. He views society as being infected, it is controling and rufuses to grant its people the imaginative freedom that Blake deems to be the most important virtue of human nature. It is hard to ignore the sexual imagry in this poem; the worm being a phallic symbol, the Rose a woman's vagina. However the main them hidden under the surface is Blake's scorn of English society at the time and its oppressive nature.
| Posted on 2007-06-03 | by a guest
The above analysis is not entirely correct. This poem expresses Blake's contempt for 19th century society, the sick rose is a symbol of England's corruption. He views society as being infected, it is controling and rufuses to grant its people the imaginative freedom that Blake deems to be the most important virtue of human nature. It is hard to ignore the sexual imagry in this poem; the worm being a phallic symbol, the Rose a woman's vagina. However the main them hidden under the surface is Blake's scorn of English society at the time and its oppressive nature.
| Posted on 2007-06-03 | by a guest
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This is one of the fine piece of William Blake, so short but had so much power. My seventh grade teacher introduced me to his writtings, and since then I have been seduced by poetry. If I'd have half the talent of these extreamly gifted writters...I'd die happy. I think this poem obviously is about love, perhaps a a man or a woman that is so wrong for the other, keeps returning to their bed for nights filled with passion, although they know things will never work out. This poem grabbed me the first time I read it.
| Posted on 2004-12-13 | by theDevilsPocket
This is one of the fine piece of William Blake, so short but had so much power. My seventh grade teacher introduced me to his writtings, and since then I have been seduced by poetry. If I'd have half the talent of these extreamly gifted writters...I'd die happy. I think this poem obviously is about love, perhaps a a man or a woman that is so wrong for the other, keeps returning to their bed for nights filled with passion, although they know things will never work out. This poem grabbed me the first time I read it.
| Posted on 2004-12-13 | by theDevilsPocket
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