The sick Rose

The sick Rose

Introduction :-

William Blake

 In 1789 , the eccentric poet - printer William Blake published a small book of poems called songs of innocence , the poems are exactly that short  lyrics about children (innocence ) that resemble songs and nursery rhymes . But Blake was no ordinary poet ; he was also a painter ,printer, and engraver, and each of the poems in the songs of Innocence as accompanied by an illustration that framed the poem .head over to “ Best of the web “ to see what these poems looked like .

If Blake wasn’t content with just writing poems with no illustrations, he also wasn’t content with simply writing about innocence ; something was missing , In 1794 he published a compassion to the Songs of Innocence called the Songs of Experience ,which  contains “ The sick Rose .” The songs of volume was called the dongs of Innocence and Experience , and the entire Two Country states of the songs of Innocence tend to be ,well ,more innocent ,begin ,and childish ,whereas the Songs of Experience explore darker ,more sinister themes associated with the  Industrial Revolution religion , and education ,”The Sick Rose ,” for example ,is n’t just about a rose that’s losing its color . It’s about worm (sometimes read as a symbol of the devil ) that 9 essentially ) rapes the rose and destroys it with its “dark secret love .”

Although Blake thought of innocence and experience e as contraries ,any attempts to classify innocence as good and experience as bad inevitably fail;sometimes the Songs of Innocence appear innocent and then end up being darker and more complicated upon closer examination. In fact Blake which suggests that his vision was much more complicated that the simple word “contraries “ implies .

 You know the old expression.’don’t judge a book by its cover .” and its variants , like “looks can be deceiving ,” right ? Well , this might be one of the best ways to characterize the songs of Innocence and Experience in general and the “ the sick rose “ in particular . You see ,the poem isn’t just about a routinely encounter in movies ,television shows ,and video games.this is not to suggest that “the sick Rose ‘ is the eighteenth century equivalent of Resident Evil ,only that is too is just as interested in the darker side of human nature ,society ,and culture as anything today , despite the fact that is  is literally about a rose and a worm .

We can’t help thinking about the worm in “ the Sick rose “ the destroys the rose with his “dark secret love .” We don’t usually think of love as something that destroys things ,but the poem suggests that a repressed love that is “dark “ and “ secret “ - as opposed to “light “ ( whatever that would be ) and public - does . so this poem dies at least suggest the dangerous consequences of viewing sex and love as things to be kept “dark ‘and “secret.”