The sick rose by william blake

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.

1. Mohammad Jashim Uddin Assistant Professor Department of English Northern University Bangladesh The Sick Rose by William Blake You Tube Link: https ://youtu.be/GnAkCUoBHGI

2. THE SICK ROSE 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.

3. Ms. Blue and Her Drawing (see Figure 2) The baby girl was in the heart of her mom, but her mother could not protect and preserve her because of the political persecution, “the one-child policy” enacted by the red communism government during 1966-1976. The baby girl and her helpless mom were controlled by the red communist government (the gray color) and the Chinese patriarchal tradition (the black color on the top of the drawing) .

4. Ms. Green and Her Drawing (see Figure 3) The same rose, once was abandoned on the ground, once was put in a vase. She has no right to make any decision for her marriage and destiny even she has a Master’s degree in math and computer science and has a bright future as an engineer at IBM in California.

5. Ms. Purple and Her Drawing (see Figure 5) As a young Hispanic woman from Columbia, Ms. Purple fell in love with her American boyfriend at the first sight, without the consent from her family. But her American husband abandoned her and their two daughters three years after their marriage. She had to work very hard as a janitor in the University campus to raise herself and her two daughters in the U.S. She always sighed over her fate with tears.

6. A pretty young Hispanic woman was looking outside the window and shedding tears like the rain dripping outside her window.

7. Answer the following questions 1. What might the poem's images suggest or symbol? 2. What do you think the poem is about? 3. Does the poem have an argument? Is it descriptive? 4. Why is the worm 'invisible', and why does he fly through 'a howling storm'? 5. Why is the WORM destroying the rose and where does it happen?

8. 6. Why do you think that the love is the 'dark secret love'? 7. Why do you think the poem is mystic, symbolic and sexual? 8. What is anthropomorphism or personification? Draw examples from the text. 9. What is apostrophe? Give an example from the text. 10. What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

9. 11. What do the rose and the worm represent here? 12. Identify the figure of speeches of the poem. 13. Analyze the poem from stylistic point of view. 14. Analyse the from a feminist perspective. 15. Explain the poem from Reader-respond perspective.