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This week we are studying closed forms poems in
class, so I decide to write an entry on “Rose” this was published in 5-18-2008.
This is the first time that I’m doing a blog and
creating a paper such as this.
There were several varieties of rose in the
ancient world, as there are hundreds in the
modern, but the rose in poetry has always been red (or
“rose”) in color, unless otherwise described. “Red as a rose” is the prime
poetic cliché, and poets have used every other term for red to describe it,
such as Shakespeare’s “deep vermilion” (Sonnets98) or the “crimson joy”
of Blake’s “Sick Rose”. The rose blooms in the spring, and does not
bloom long; the contrast is striking between its youth in the bud and its
full-blown maturity, and again between both these phases and its final
scattering of petals on the ground, all in the course of a week or two. It is
rich in perfume, which seems to emanate from its dense and delicate folds
of petals. It is vulnerable to the canker-worm. And it grows on a plant with
thorns. All these features have entered into its range of symbolic uses.
modern, but the rose in poetry has always been red (or
“rose”) in color, unless otherwise described. “Red as a rose” is the prime
poetic cliché, and poets have used every other term for red to describe it,
such as Shakespeare’s “deep vermilion” (Sonnets98) or the “crimson joy”
of Blake’s “Sick Rose”. The rose blooms in the spring, and does not
bloom long; the contrast is striking between its youth in the bud and its
full-blown maturity, and again between both these phases and its final
scattering of petals on the ground, all in the course of a week or two. It is
rich in perfume, which seems to emanate from its dense and delicate folds
of petals. It is vulnerable to the canker-worm. And it grows on a plant with
thorns. All these features have entered into its range of symbolic uses.
