Monday, March 12, 2012

Roses never die


Roses never die




                                   From Wikipedia


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.
I choose this part of the poem, because I like the way how the author describes the roses and compares each phase. I put the title" roses never die" because all the roses have different shapes, aromas, and colors. and each one leaves its essence in our lives.

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.

1 comment:

  1. Now, that's one long URL--and in such big font! Ask me how to fix your links...

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