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Sick Rose, The Analysis
Author: Poetry of William Blake Type: Poetry Views: 7145
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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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.: o rose thou art sick :.
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
.: The Sick Rose :.
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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