Who wrote this poem?
William Blake was born in London in 1757. He was an English poet, painter and engraver. His family was middle –class one.Thus, he didn't receive any formal education. he studied only how to write and read. Then, for 7 years he became an apprentice for a famous engraver. He married Catherine Boucher who helped him to produce Blake's collection of poems and drawings called Songs of Innocence and Experience. In song of innocence Blake described life as it seems to innocent children. In song of Experience he showed a mature person understanding of pain and terror. He was one of the greatest lyric writers and a great member of romanticism. He wrote many poems such as 'the "tiger"," Jerusalem' and "the sick rose". He died in London in 1827.
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The Form: it consists of two stanzas. Each one is a quatrain.
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Paraphrase: In these two quatrains, the poet is addressing the rose to inform it about its sickness. The cause of its sickness is the love between the rose and "the invisible worm." this worm" has stolen into the bed of rose under the cover of night "in the howling storm". The dark secret love of this worm is destroying the rose life.
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Theme: the poet speaks about the sickness of a beautiful rose saying that it is because an invisible worm's love. This worm destroys the innocence of the rose. Here the poet describes what happened in a small part of garden to show us what happened in real life. The poet explains moral issue that is the taboos of wrong relationship and how these relationships destroy people's life.
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Figures of Speech
apostrophe: in the 1st line of the 1st stanza, we have an apostrophe. the poet is addressing the rose ,which is nonhuman, as if it were human and could answer.( O' Rose)
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images: there is too much visual images such as in 1st, 2nd, 3rd in the 1st stanza(………you should write the images….)
there is an auditory image in the 4th line in the 1st stanza, " in the howling storm"
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personification: in the 1st line of the 1st stanza the poet compares the rose to the sick person
in the 2nd line of the 1st stanza the poet compares the worm to a person in love
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*****************phor: in 3rd line of the 1st stanza "that flies in the night" the poet compares the worm to bird
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Symbol : the whole poem is based on symbolism. We have many symbols>such as:
rose>> beauty - love - soft - innocence
worm>> evil - envy - selfishness - death.
Night>> darkness.
storm>> destruction.
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The Tone: is pessimistic, sad, gloomy and terrifying
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Sounds and Sense
alliteration: the repetition of the first consonant sound of important words such as in the 3rd line in the 1st stanza "that - the", in the 4th line in the 2nd stanza " does - destroy"
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consonance: the repetition of final consonant sound of important word such as in the 1st line of the 2nd stanza we have consonance "found - bed"
in the 2nd line in the 1st stanza "that - night"
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assonance: the repetition of same vowel of important word such as "worm - storm" "out - found - found - howling" "joy - destroy" "dark - art" "life - flies - night"
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onomatopoeia: there an onomatopoeia in the 4th line in the 1st stanza "in the howling storm" howling is a nature sound of wind and wolf
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The Rhyme Scheme: the poem consist two stanza each one is a quatrain. In each one, the second line rhymes with the forth.
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The Rhyme Scheme
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sick...(a)
worm...(b)
night...(a)
storm...(b)
bed...(c)
joy...(d)
love...(c)
destroy...(d)
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تم التصحيح والله يوفقكم .................