Theme of Sick Rose poem

                                                                The Sick Rose

                                                                                        by William Blake


William Blake was a romantic poet and a renowned painter. He has written many poems in his age. Actually his poems indicate us about song of innocence and of experience which helps us can to be close of God.The Sick Rose in his famous poem and we will discussion about this poem.

Critic Harold Bloom refers to the present short literary work as "one of Blake's maxim triumphs." The speaker addresses a rose, that he claims  sick as a result of associate “invisible worm” has “found out thy bed/Of crimson joy.” The rose symbolizes earth like, as hostile religious, love, that becomes unwell once infected with the materialism of the planet. The rose’s bed of “crimson joy” may be a sexual image, with the confessedly phallic worm representing either lust or jealousy. The worm incorporates a “dark secret love” that destroys the rose’s life, suggesting one thing sinful or impermissible.

Analysis

Nature brings this illness to the worm with “the howling storm.” though the speaker decries the rose's illness within the initial line, the remainder of the literary work subtly suggests that the rose isn't innocent of her own destruction. The worm has incidentally "found out" the rose's bed, that is "crimson joy" even before the worm's arrival. The red of passion and of the canal "crimson bed" image counterpart to the worm's phallic one suggests that the rose has already been experiencing some quite lustful passion.

In keeping with a lot of of the Songs of expertise, this literary work is temporary, with 2 stanzas, and deviates from the Innocence rhyme theme of ABAB CDCD. Here the rhyme theme, ABCB DEFE, introduces a note of discord to keep with the unwell effects of the "secret love" that the rose hides, a lot of to its damage. "Worm" and "storm" area unit rhyming, connecting the agent of destruction with a force of nature. within the second textual matter, "joy" and "destroy" area unit connected, linking what ought to be a positive expertise to the decaying unwellness that the rose has contracted .