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Poet: William Blake
Poem: The Sick Rose
Volume: Songs of Experience
Year: Published/Written in 1789
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Nov 3 2003
Comment 60 of 60, added on July 23rd, 2006 at 2:12 PM.
I believe this poem was created on the AGEE OF ROMANTICISM...William Blake along with William Wordsworth,Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats,and Samuel Coleridge genre...ALL OF WHICH ARE POST Revolutionary War or post Modernism works...These poem describes the perceiver of the art to understand that this is not the the art itself but the artist to be interpreted at.
Rose indicates the government on that time and how the system was plague with worm or "THE CANCER OF SOCIETY" corruptions of aristocrat, hostility and suppresion by the government...This era is the most melancholic time of history that is why it was called Romanticism because there was a lot of Rights neglected by the human eye that a genius individual beholds.These era was well explained by this single poem,ROSE (which is the government that is so sick)...plague by the worm who is the corrupted officials that flies by the night when everyone sleeps(when no one notices) in a time that is chaotic full of storm,PERSONAL INTEREST interpreted under the BED OF CRIMSON JOY which is the land and the desire for the nation to GROW and EXPAND destroyed THE ARTISTS RIGHTS, passion for human rights...
BONG from Philippines
Comment 59 of 60, added on July 5th, 2006 at 7:42 AM.
I'm surprised that no one has considered the tone of the speaker. Is it one of condemnation? Mocking? Sorrow? Information only? Who is the speaker? All of these questions plus looking at the illustration that Blake did for this poem help the reader understand that there truly is a multi-layered approach to this poem. In our time, one could link it to the effects of HIV/AIDS: it destroys or alters the quality of life. The "howling storm" could suggest mental illness. Anyone that has spent time with bi-polar people, or people that suffer from Alzheimer's knows how erratic behavors can be displaed. Could the poem be reflective of the Industrial Revolution? Yes. Even today, there are numerous people that are not comfortable with the varied technologies that are available. Imagine Blake's world shifting towards machines, the increased levels of pollution, the pulling away of the "simple" country life. Furthermore, the poem can be read as a circle of life. All things come to an end. Consider that the thorns did not protect the rose.
What is of interest to me is that in the illustration, only the rose is bent. The ground, which is the "bed" of the rose, is healthy.
For an eight line poem, there is much to be discovered!
Have fun expanding your thoughts about this poem. If you use any of these ideas in your paper, make sure to cite it properly! English teachers are savvy!
dallas holsten from United States
Comment 58 of 60, added on July 4th, 2006 at 8:20 AM.
For starteres, the poem is called the ROSE. It is political reference tiger tiger ie. paris.
william blake from Australia
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I believe this poem was created on the AGEE OF ROMANTICISM...William Blake along with William Wordsworth,Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats,and Samuel Coleridge genre...ALL OF WHICH ARE POST Revolutionary War or post Modernism works...These poem describes the perceiver of the art to understand that this is not the the art itself but the artist to be interpreted at.
Rose indicates the government on that time and how the system was plague with worm or "THE CANCER OF SOCIETY" corruptions of aristocrat, hostility and suppresion by the government...This era is the most melancholic time of history that is why it was called Romanticism because there was a lot of Rights neglected by the human eye that a genius individual beholds.These era was well explained by this single poem,ROSE (which is the government that is so sick)...plague by the worm who is the corrupted officials that flies by the night when everyone sleeps(when no one notices) in a time that is chaotic full of storm,PERSONAL INTEREST interpreted under the BED OF CRIMSON JOY which is the land and the desire for the nation to GROW and EXPAND destroyed THE ARTISTS RIGHTS, passion for human rights...
BONG from Philippines