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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
Comment 57 of 60, added on June 5th, 2006 at 3:32 PM.
Well its about rape and sex k so lets just leave it at that k peoples
joe from United States
Comment 56 of 60, added on May 17th, 2006 at 7:04 AM.
You're so very right but, my message wasnt in the whole sex viewpoint of things...
Howeverrr, please break the ice and post a commment on your two listed poems. It will be interesting to see what you say :)
Ami from United States
Comment 55 of 60, added on May 17th, 2006 at 6:31 AM.
seriously you guys, this is one of the minor major poems in the songs of experience. there really isnt that much to it. every one on here ha said its about sex and rape and disease... just leave it at that. think about some of blakes more challenging poems or some of his more important onces like London and the Tyger.
Jeri from United Kingdom
Comment 54 of 60, added on May 17th, 2006 at 5:58 AM.
Well could the rose and worm not represent a large aray of things, not just the simple act of sex.
Yes indeed the poem is heavily loaded with sexual imagery; the worm may act as a phallic symbol whereby its destruction of the Rose reflects the oppressive nature of men on a conventional symbol of love and feminine purity..but i feel there must be more.
Blake, with his fascination for open relationships, may be exploring into what exactly the confines and limitations of relationships are; not sharing with mutual respect but rather, "dark secret", sadomasochistic.
Alternatively, there even may be a religous reading. The Rose is often a symbol of biblical purity and the worm, interchangable with the serpent of Genesis and thereby the devil is an "invisible" force that is able to destruct this. The use of archaic language perhaps reinforces this notion.
But if we really want to delve into context, even Britain may be the subject of this poem. The Rose-an emblem of the nation-is under threat from the industrial revolution, economic exploitation (things Blake detested). The worm, quinessentially earthbound does the same ol thing every day; it has one purpose: to move through the soil. This repetitive and ongoing nature of the worm symbolises this urbanisation perfectly.
But, I spose its up to the reader...you horny bastards lol
Ami from United Kingdom
Comment 53 of 60, added on May 12th, 2006 at 2:43 PM.
i read the sick rose many times. it is about two different elements which are so opposed, rose is a simbol of beauty so why it is so sick everybody loves this rose as everyone will look for the reason that makes it sick.
maryem from Morocco
Comment 52 of 60, added on May 10th, 2006 at 7:07 PM.
The Sick Rose is about a woman who has an affair on her husband. The rose symbolizes love and the relationship, the worm is the man whom she is cheating with, the crimson joy is the love making, and the dark secret love is the actual affair taking place
Drew from United States
Comment 51 of 60, added on May 7th, 2006 at 2:39 AM.
this is a beautiful (resonant) poem
but it isnīt about rape or a sexual relationship
i think
its not so profound
do you have to interpret so much?
...
"O Rose,thou aren`t sick
Just mangled and dead
Since the rotten gardener
Pruned off thy head."
Do you know it?
julia from Germany
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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