"The Sick Rose" by William Blake as viewed in a formalist way plus its ominous rhythm from its short two-beat lines to complement the directness on how the subject is told could present the readers the dreading sense of the poem.
In a way of establishing a touch through the depths of the passage and its metaphorical and allegorical point of view, the subject which is the rose takes account of being a literary flower, the conventional symbol of love. The flower is living as the hostage of the worm - the image of biblical serpent and the symbol of death. The worm creeps in unnoticeably in the rose's very bed where the flower itself is starting to wither. This denotes that love is infected; the rose is ailing unawarely, and so is love. The love which is being destroyed discreetly, tainted by secrecy which the symbol of immorality suffices towards the shame and the death of the one-sided passion.
The poem states how love could be so weak whenever not paid back, most especially when it starts to confuse the holder. It could result to obsession, then madness.
In a way of establishing a touch through the depths of the passage and its metaphorical and allegorical point of view, the subject which is the rose takes account of being a literary flower, the conventional symbol of love. The flower is living as the hostage of the worm - the image of biblical serpent and the symbol of death. The worm creeps in unnoticeably in the rose's very bed where the flower itself is starting to wither. This denotes that love is infected; the rose is ailing unawarely, and so is love. The love which is being destroyed discreetly, tainted by secrecy which the symbol of immorality suffices towards the shame and the death of the one-sided passion.
The poem states how love could be so weak whenever not paid back, most especially when it starts to confuse the holder. It could result to obsession, then madness.
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