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My Interpretation of the Poem O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm, That flies in the night In the howling storm: Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy: And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy. The sick rose is a very ambiguous poem, open to several interpretations as the images and objects in the poem can have various meanings. I am going to analyse different sections of the poem to then be able to give my overall reading of Blake's poem. A rose, can connote beauty, it can be a symbol love, represent loyalty and passion. Yet rose's have thorns which draw blood, so in that respect the rose could suggest dubiousness, pain and even death. I interweaved these ideas and imagined the rose as a beautiful woman, who is seriously ill or dying. I came to this conclusion as rose is juxtaposed with the word 'sick' which emphasizes the illness and the...

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