Thursday, July 24, 2008

The sick rose by William Blake

This is a 2 stanza poem, with 4 lines each stanza. It is a sonnet and it has an ab,ab pattern. The persona has the same mood through out the whole poem. The moos is of, sadness or guilty feeling.

The persona is talking maybe about a vice, something that is not okay. The worm represents the sickness of the action and (finding his bed) means that there is probably something sexual. I think that he is talking about rape or maybe a person that sleeps with yournger girls and has sex with them. Whatever it is he knows that it not right because at the end he says that this vice his life will destroy..

1 comment:

debwrite said...

Great explication!
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