1. The Sick Rose
WILLIAM BLAKE: "THE SICK ROSE" William Blake, known for his excellent writing ability wrote a poem which I was intrigued by, "The Sick Rose." ... Perhaps the 1st line can explain this: "O rose, thou art sick!" ... Although our first visual of human conception of a rose may be just that, a flower, one senses much deeper in this Blake poem, "The Sick Rose". ... One might read "The Sick Rose", and find that William Blake is a very intense and talented writer, as I did. Through this observation one can see that William Blake wrote not only symbolically, but also opens our minds from t...
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