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The Rose Family Analysis
Author: poem of Robert Frost Type: poem Views: 145
The rose is a rose,
And was always a rose.
But the theory now goes
That the apple's a rose,
And the pear is, and so's
The plum, I suppose.
The dear only knows
What will next prove a rose.
You, of course, are a rose --
But were always a rose.
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Botanical classifications added plants to the rose family. Frost deftly pokes fun at the idea of an apple or a pear becoming a rose as the result of scientific assignments while drawing upon the rich literary tradition of using roses as a metaphor for female beauty.
Unlikely additions to the rose family do not dilute the value and beauty of a true rose, his poem says, just as the true beauty of the object of the poet's affection is not altered. The familiar and affectionate tone of the poem enhance the idea that the poet is reassuring his lover that his allegiance will not stray despite the arrival of these new "roses."
The obvious literary allusions include Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet ("What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet") and Robert Burns' "A red, red rose."
| Posted on 2009-11-09 | by a guest
Botanical classifications added plants to the rose family. Frost deftly pokes fun at the idea of an apple or a pear becoming a rose as the result of scientific assignments while drawing upon the rich literary tradition of using roses as a metaphor for female beauty.
Unlikely additions to the rose family do not dilute the value and beauty of a true rose, his poem says, just as the true beauty of the object of the poet's affection is not altered. The familiar and affectionate tone of the poem enhance the idea that the poet is reassuring his lover that his allegiance will not stray despite the arrival of these new "roses."
The obvious literary allusions include Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet ("What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet") and Robert Burns' "A red, red rose."
| Posted on 2009-11-09 | by a guest
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This poem explains people's reliance on perception to define larger issues - for example, at any given point people know the difference between right and wrong, until "right" morphs into something "wrong." Then a rose becomes an apple, or a pear, or something else. Anything can be as certain as a rose one minute and as uncertain as a pear the next.
| Posted on 2009-01-06 | by a guest
This poem explains people's reliance on perception to define larger issues - for example, at any given point people know the difference between right and wrong, until "right" morphs into something "wrong." Then a rose becomes an apple, or a pear, or something else. Anything can be as certain as a rose one minute and as uncertain as a pear the next.
| Posted on 2009-01-06 | by a guest
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I think that it is examining the cliche of the word "rose" to represent beauty, in addition to the question, like mentioned above, about the question "what's in a name?"
If, as time progresses, any old apple or even plum can be defined as a "rose", then it is not a matter of apples and plums becoming more beautiful, but the distortion of their perception. A plum, could appear to a man as a 'rose' if he is biased by their emotional bond. However, Frost is showing, whoever he has written the poem about, that she is classically beautiful, and neither the apple-lover nor the plum-lover can deny this. He states that the woman in question's beauty will always remain, in comparison to the other woman mentioned, of which he cynically questions "What will next prove a rose".
In this love poem, Frost questions our perception of beauty.
| Posted on 2008-12-20 | by a guest
I think that it is examining the cliche of the word "rose" to represent beauty, in addition to the question, like mentioned above, about the question "what's in a name?"
If, as time progresses, any old apple or even plum can be defined as a "rose", then it is not a matter of apples and plums becoming more beautiful, but the distortion of their perception. A plum, could appear to a man as a 'rose' if he is biased by their emotional bond. However, Frost is showing, whoever he has written the poem about, that she is classically beautiful, and neither the apple-lover nor the plum-lover can deny this. He states that the woman in question's beauty will always remain, in comparison to the other woman mentioned, of which he cynically questions "What will next prove a rose".
In this love poem, Frost questions our perception of beauty.
| Posted on 2008-12-20 | by a guest
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.for me,, i think that the significance of the story is that, no matter what happens you will always be your self
| Posted on 2008-11-13 | by a guest
.for me,, i think that the significance of the story is that, no matter what happens you will always be your self
| Posted on 2008-11-13 | by a guest
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i perosnally think that he is saying that no matter where you go you will alwasy be part of your family.
| Posted on 2008-11-13 | by a guest
i perosnally think that he is saying that no matter where you go you will alwasy be part of your family.
| Posted on 2008-11-13 | by a guest
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My father asked me once when I was much younger,"If you have a dog with four legs and a tail, and you call the tail a leg, how many legs do you have? I replied five.
"Wrong", he answered, "he still only has four, calling a tail a leg doesn't make it one.
Likewise, only the rose has all the true properties of a Rose that make it a Rose. We could rename some other item a rose, but it would not make it have all the beautiful properties that a genuine Rose has and has always had.
| Posted on 2008-08-17 | by a guest
My father asked me once when I was much younger,"If you have a dog with four legs and a tail, and you call the tail a leg, how many legs do you have? I replied five.
"Wrong", he answered, "he still only has four, calling a tail a leg doesn't make it one.
Likewise, only the rose has all the true properties of a Rose that make it a Rose. We could rename some other item a rose, but it would not make it have all the beautiful properties that a genuine Rose has and has always had.
| Posted on 2008-08-17 | by a guest
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this is like frost writing a poem to a girl saying that no matter what she gonna stay arose meaning she gonna stay beautiful
| Posted on 2008-05-20 | by a guest
this is like frost writing a poem to a girl saying that no matter what she gonna stay arose meaning she gonna stay beautiful
| Posted on 2008-05-20 | by a guest
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