Oisin Remedios
The unchanging nature of humanity.
How do the poems in the anthology reflect the different forms of loves?
This essay demonstrates how love is and always has been a risky and varied emotion.
The two poems I have chosen are “The Sick Rose” by William Blake, The Sun Rising by John Donne The Sick Rose is largely about loss of innocence and The Sun Rising is an ecstatic celebration of love. All of these poems show how powerful and important love has been across time
The first poem “The Sick Rose” it reflects to the anthology in different forms of love by writing pacifically about the main character the women. In The Sick Rose the poet explains about how and why the woman had caught a sexual disease, “Has found out thy bed of Crimson joy” this means that she probably loves the man, and also enjoyed the sexual intercourse with the man she had sex with. The Invisible worm is symbolised as a disease that has taken away the girls virginity. More information about love in this poem would have to be the next verse where it says “And his dark secret love” this means they probably love each other they can not express it, so it would have to be a secret, because if anyone knows about them and their relationship their life’s would be ruined, because it was adultery they will be unwelcome to be known by friends or family. The sickness, however, may well be an internal psychological sickness that comes from unacted desires within the Rose.
