It is a daily burden of human 's to have to accept loss. Loss can be one of the most trivial times in a person 's life, whether it be losing your childhood pet or having to move on after the death of a loved one. Blake, like any other person, is faced with this situation of having to let go of something he loves, whether he likes it or not. Blake 's writing, "The Sick Rose" demonstrates his feelings of loss for something, most likely a person close to him life a wife, through his various usage of metaphor, personification, and allegory to create a mood that the reader is able to relate to. Without any deep analyzing, this excerpt can be interpreted as the death of a rose flower in a violent storm. However, Blake turns this story into a completely
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Blake give 's the "invisible worm", as stated on line two, an element of personification as Blake describes the disease has finally found the right time to serves its final blow on the narrator 's death bed. The "bed" is described as being filled with "crimson joy"; this joy may refer to the wife 's passion for her husband and that she does not want to leave him (or vice-versa), but this may also refer to the pain that she is feeling as the disease is running through her body. The description of the "joy" being "crimson" may also refer to the color of her blood that may have been seen due to the disease. This element of personification continues into line 7 as the "worm" is given an affinity for the wife, and it is shown that the disease is captive in the wife 's heart, just like the narrator is. She may have tried to keep this "secret love" away from the narrator as she knew that it would break his heart. On the last line, Blake closes by showing the impact that the disease had on the narrator 's wife, by saying that saying that it finally "destroy" 's her, both emotionally and physically. This therefore ends not only the life of Rose, but as well as the period of the narrator 's wife of being married. The narrator realizes that this phase is over, and recognizes that he must continue regardless of the hole in his
Blake give 's the "invisible worm", as stated on line two, an element of personification as Blake describes the disease has finally found the right time to serves its final blow on the narrator 's death bed. The "bed" is described as being filled with "crimson joy"; this joy may refer to the wife 's passion for her husband and that she does not want to leave him (or vice-versa), but this may also refer to the pain that she is feeling as the disease is running through her body. The description of the "joy" being "crimson" may also refer to the color of her blood that may have been seen due to the disease. This element of personification continues into line 7 as the "worm" is given an affinity for the wife, and it is shown that the disease is captive in the wife 's heart, just like the narrator is. She may have tried to keep this "secret love" away from the narrator as she knew that it would break his heart. On the last line, Blake closes by showing the impact that the disease had on the narrator 's wife, by saying that saying that it finally "destroy" 's her, both emotionally and physically. This therefore ends not only the life of Rose, but as well as the period of the narrator 's wife of being married. The narrator realizes that this phase is over, and recognizes that he must continue regardless of the hole in his