Monday, October 5, 2015
The Sick Rose
A short illustrative poem but a very profound one at that. The rose can mean multiple things such as nature, society, or ourselves as individual. The worm can be anything that is corruptive . This poem is universal and speaks on many levels. It brings the question of what or who is the rose in the readers life and what is the worm.The last stanza speaks loudly to me as it gives insight to the worm and the rose. The rose is enjoying life joyously while the worm only seeks to kill. Personally I believe the worm is cultural christianity as for my faith it is so easy to be swept up in what seems "good" or "right" in being a Christ Follower. Yet my one question is what is the worms "dark secret love"? Is it that it truly loves the rose so much that it must kill it so that no one else can have it? Blake does speak to the Rose directly as to let know of its unfortunate death, yet why would the worm kill the rose if it had a love for it? Maybe it's true love is to destroy things? It could be both or it could neither, but I as previously stated the poem can be interpreted multiple ways to the human eye.
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Personally, I thought the poem was more cut and dry than that. The worm is code for Satan and the Rose is code for Humanity. Satan's one goal is to kill, and destroy our happiness just as the worm's goal was to destroy the roses life.
ReplyDeleteThis poem really intrigued me, partly because of how short it is and partly because of the nature metaphors. I kind of agree with both you and Briana. While I think Blake may be referencing man's sin with the sickness of the rose and Satan with the worm, I can also see how you could compare those two things to any destructive thing in your life.
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