“The Sick Rose” is a short poem that was written by William Blake; he is also known as a poet artist and mystic. Since many poets receive their inspirational of writing their poems from sources like a lover, a personal experience and or a history event. Thus; Blake short poem is not from his imagination, but it’s from the reality that he might witness in his life. The Blake’s poem had received many criticisms from critics who tried to investigate “The Sick Roe” and they give their interpretation with many different types of explanation. There’re some critics who believe that the Rose is a symbol of beauty, youthfulness, innocent; compare to the worm whom they think it represent an old age, corrupts and decay. And there is the type of critics who thinks that the Rose is represented the “social crown of life”. The criticisms of “The Sick Rose” came from Michael Riffaterre in his test “the self-sufficient”, Cervo Nathan in his journal the “explicator” and Berger Harry in his book the caterpillage. I chose these three critics to make some comparison of their opinion and in what point they don’t agree on. “The Sick Rose” is derived to capture the world for allegory and interest in the way that life still challengeable between innocent fragile and evil and corruption”.
Michael Riffaterre main focus in his analysis of “The Sick Rose” using internal evidence only to analyze the poem and to determine to what extend the literary texts is self-sufficient. He thinks that a proper reading entails no more than knowledge of the language. He also argues for a more internal reading of this poem, because he emphasizes the importance of the relationship between the words as their corresponding realities. As an example of this, he states that t...
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...nd gazing something that seems to be definite and familiar to the speaker but is also the vice versa to us as the readers. At the end of his interpretation he symbolizes the worm as the women because the women are no less than the worm that infects the image like “allegorical swelling” .
There are many ways to interpret “The Sick Rose” but the meaning is still the same which is the loss of virtue to corrupt. The worm get in the flower and drain until the host will die and that what most of the critics agrees on. This can be relating to today’s life by how the society is getting corrupting and killing the society.
Works Cites
Riffaterre, Michael “The self-sufficient”. Diacritics (1973): 39-45
Nathan, Cervo “The explicator”. The paradiso (New York Mentor; 1970):338
Berger, Harry “Caterpillage”; the Sick Rose, 7-9
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