1) What makes the worm joyful?
Ans:- The worm is joyful as it finds in the rose a rseting place.
2) What does the worm do to the rose?
Ans:- The worm sickens the rose and gradually perishes it
3) When did the worm creep into the rose's bed?
Ans:- The woman crept into the rose's bed in the night of howling storm.
4) "Has found out thy bed
      Of crimson joy"- Who is joyful?
Ans:- The worm that resides in the rose is joyful.
5) What has the worm found out?
Ans:- The worm has found out the bed of the rose.
6) What biblical reference does the poem contain? 
Ans:- Blake's poem 'The Sick Rose' contains the biblical reference of the Fall of Man.
7)"In the howling storm..."-What happens in the howling storm?
Ans:- In the howling storm comes flying the invisible worm and takes shelter in the bosom of the blooming rose.
8) Why does the rose fail to prevent the attack of the worm?
Ans:- The rose fails to prevent the attack of the worm because of its dark secret love.

William Blake was a mystic poet and artist. He was largely unrecognised figure during his life time but now Blake is considered as a seminal writer in the history of the poetry of the Romantic Age. Blake's first volume, "Poetical Sketches" was published in 1783. Blake's poetic originality found in "Songs of Innocence" in 1789. As one of the first generation of Romantic poets, Blake is characterized by imagination and passion. For his idiosyncratic views, Blake was considered mad by his contemporaries. Blake for his expressiveness and creativity, and for the philosophical and mystical works, he held in high regard by later critics. His poetry is appealing to the feeling rather than to the intellect. To uphold and to promote the principles of democracy and equality, Blake would walk the streets of London wearing the red cap. His works mark the beginning of Romanticism in English literature. "The Book of Thel"(1789) along with "Songs of Innocence" manifests the early phase of Blake's highly distinctive mystic vision. Blake' "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience" are two complementary anthologies of poems. They present his ideas and vision of innocence and experience. These two volume showing the two contrary states of the human soul. As a poet of the soul, Blake defies all laws of logic. He expresses everything through subtle symbols with his poetic genius.

            "The Sick Rose" is one of the finest poems found in "Songs of Experience". It was published in 1794. "The Sick Rose" is a sequel to "The Blossom" in "Songs of Innocence" is celebrated through a picture of the life of nature that consists of a blossom, a sparrow, a robin and the green leaves. "The Sick Rose" exposes the process which corrupts the innocence portrayed in "The Blossom". The poem trace the growth of the poet from innocence to experience, from the role of a mere piper to that of the all knowing bard. Blake also does not offer a definite answer concerning his political and religious beliefs but, rather, presents disparate orthodox and unorthodox views to consider.

                William Blake's "The Sick Rose" represents the confrontation of Innocence and experience. While the rose stands for innocence, the worm represents experience. The poet looks at a rose and senses that the flower is sick. It conjures up the vision of a rose attacked in a stormy night by a destructive worm, and so Blake depicts it in his accompanying illustration. An invisible worm, has attacked the deep red petals of flower. The invisible worm flies in the night as well as in the howling storm. The attack to the petals may be taken as the expression of love on the part of the worm. Since, this love is vicious, it may be called seduction. However the love of the worm for the flower has made the flower diseased and will lead ultimately to the withering away of the flower. We may say that it refers to he destruction of love by selfishnes, of innocence by experience, of spiritual life by spiritual death.

In William Blake's "The Sick Rose" the invisible worm flies in the night.

        The' howling storm' is a damaging wind making loud noise while making the atmosphere dark at the same moment. It plays a major part in the worm's seduction of the rose. It energizes the worm and adds strength to the worm's evil design. Simultaneously, it adds to the rose's helplessness.

The worm is called invisible in this poem because it has crept into the bed of the rose and also because of the darkness produced by the night and the hurling storm. No one can see this. The rose's sickness can make its presence felt. So to the human eye, the worm remains invisible.
      

In Blake's poem "The Sick Rose", the expression 'dark secret love' refers to the illegitimate love of the worm. Because of this element of mystery involved in the love affair, it becomes 'dark' suggesting mysterious. So the expression 'dark secret love' means love that corrupts the rose insidiously in the darkness of night.

        Here the poet simply expressed that the dark secret love of the worm destroys the life of the rose. But the inherent meaning suggests that beauty and purity is corrupted by the evil forces, represented by the worm. Now the rose has lost her innocence. Because of this deceitful social love, she is sick with same.

This line is taken from William Blake's famous poem "The Sick Rose". Here the word 'thy' refers to the rose.

       The invisible worm has found the bed of rose. The bed is of deep red colour. This bed is thus nothing but the deep red coloured petals of the rose. He found it on a stormy night.

      The expression 'crimson joy' refers to lustful passion. It suggests sexual pleasure. It has been used to describe the lovers' bed. From another standpoint, the phrase 'crimson joy' suggests ensuring beauty. While the crimson colour soothes the eye of tge viewer, the perception of the expression of joy satisfies the heart of an onlooker. There it also stands for the repressed sexuality of the rose.

             

"The Sick Rose" allegorizes the triumph of experience over innocence. Outwardly, it is a simple poem. It shows how a beautiful rose is attacked by a destructive worm on a stormy night. The love of the worm for the rose is said to be dark and secret. But it has a deeper meaning. Allegorically, the poem tells about the fall of an innocent woman. When the woman loses her virginity to a very unfaithful and deceitful man,  she feels sick and shame. The worm evokes the biblical character of Satan, the serpent, that tempted Adam and Eve and brought about their fall.Thus, the poem focuses on the fall of mankind from a state of innocence.