Showing posts with label The Sick Rose. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Sick Rose. Show all posts
Short questions and answers for class xi from 'The Sick Rose.
Short Questions and Answers from The Sick Rose for West Bengal class Xi students.
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...
Critical views on William Blake's "The sick Rose".
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...
"That flies in the night/ In the howling storm"- What flies in the night?What role does the 'howling storm'? why is the worm called 'invisible'?
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...
"And his dark secret love/ Does thy life destroy"- What does the expression 'dark secret love' mean? What does the poet mean by this?
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...
"Has found out thy bed of crimson joy"-Whom does the word 'thy' refer to? What did he find and when? What does the expression 'crimson joy' suggest?
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...
What is the allegorical significance of the poem, "The Sick 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...
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