The Sick Rose

Connotations of words
Little clues
How can it be sick ?
The qualities of humanbeings
Giving human-like qualities
The Sick Rose * Sick * Songs of experience * Badness * Unhealthy * Depressed * Infected * Imperfection * Aware or not? * The rose is sick. * Personification * Rose * Nature * Beauty * Exotic * Love * Romanticism * Female * Perfection * Innocence * Smelling good * Corruption of love
O Rose thou art sick * Starting with”o” * Calling and addressing someone or something * Praying * Pity * Having mercy * Apostrope * Describing the situation * One of the character is Rose in the poem
The invisible worm * Invisible worm * Young insect (insidious) * Loose cannon on rolling deck * Emotions are high and overated * Something harmful for flowers * Mystery * Damaging rose * Unclear * Destroying nature * Male * Imagery of ugliness * Threat * Decay * Snake or serpent in story of Adam and Eve * Disease * Damging purity * Corruption * Infection * Imperfection * Fall of humankind
Flies in the night * Flying * Danger * Power * Night * Danger * Mystery * Darkness * Secret * Hidden things * Violence * Badness * Scary * Fatal * Hell * Demons
Howling Storm * Howling storm * Gloomy atmosphere * Scarying * Badness * Danger * Crying * Shouting * Rain
Has found out thy bed * Bed * Sleeping * Having relationship * Sexuality * Lover’s bed * Natural flower bed * Metaphor of * Found out * In a while * Breeze away * Came out the blue * All of a sudden * Attention
Of crimson joy * Joy * Pleased with the situation * Happy * Crimson * Emberresed * Having a red skin * Sin * Regret * Shame * Guilty * Virginity * Crimson Joy * Annoying but not unhappy * Ironic * Regret
And his dark secret love * Is it real love ? * Can love be dark? * Dark Secret Love * Ironic * Unclear * Mysterious
Does thy life destroy * Death * Purity is gone * Unhappy * Regret * Doing bad things * Be reduced to ash * Corruption * Desturiction * Second Stanza * Describing the event * The end
Stanzas
* First Stanza * Describing teh atmosphere * Giving the mood of poem to the readers with words * Creating a setting
The Voice of in the Poem * Third person * Describing the situation, atmosphere and events * Sharing an experience * Intriguingly
Themes
* Mortality * Rose’s death * Losing innocence * Violence * Destroying innocence, rose * Dark secret love * Sexuality * Unromentic * Love * Not excepted * With force * Dark and secret * Content and Summary * There is a sick rose which is destroyed by a worm * Characters * Worm * Rose * Setting * Howling storm * In the night * In bed
Sense, Mood and Tone * Gloomy * Unhappy * Depressed * Scary * Mysterious
Literary Features * Pesonification * Allegory * Imagery * Symbol * Metaphor * Irony and paradox * Dark secret love * Sick rose * Crimson joy
Rometicisim
* Imagination * Rose and worm * Induviduality * Loneliness of rose and worm * Night * Storm * Secret * Invisible * Intution * Dark secret love * Crimson joy * Feelings over intution * Inspiration * From nature * Rose(unspoiled) * Worm(spoiled) * Beauty * Exotic place
Language and Power * Inversion (almost every line) * Short hitting lines * Simple and understandable word choice * Only 17 words * Monosyllabic words(invisible, howling, crimson, secret, destroy) * Biblical References * Oblique and Nursey Rhyme abcb defe
Language and Belief * Full of human nature (Adam and Eve) * Secret things * Disobeyed God * Having sin * Serpent * Virginity
Poet’s Purpose and Intercultural Links * Innocence -> Experience * Spoiled nature * Incurability of people being deforced for sex * Regret * Both side of nature and world * Having no real love * No happy ending love * Damaged people or real in society * Corruption of human love and sexuality * Pre-industrail England * A fall from state of innocence * The fall of mankind, human nature * Moral corruption * Own passion * Illuminated border and illustrate typcal self publication * Shame and guilt in attitudes to sexuality and physicality which bring sickness and death to life. * Reflection * Hiding * Repression of rules, parents and Church * Selfhood * Love is not always good * Love is not gained without any pain * Love is pain