I
really really really wanted the brilliant works of William Blake in his books of Songs Of Innocence and Songs Of Experience =(
THE FRIGGIN' BOOK WAS
RARE!!!!
Apparently it was made up of
copper plates and Blake has hand-drawn and hand-coloured it, thus making it rare.
The salt to the injury? Only the museums and private collectors have it.
ROAR!
I WANNA BE RICH SO I CAN BUY THAT BOOK!
It's droolworthy! (And I should know, considering that I have been ogling it like a pervert ever since my early days in CCHMS.) The pain of not having that one desire fufilled! *convulsions wracking frame*
Anyway, I got into this frenzy after reading 'The Sick Rose", which I honestly don't get.
It has so many interpretations! The sexual one, love one, political one, the human nature one, it's just ARGH!
How the -bleep- would I know what the rose is referring to?! Ask William Blake! WHY did he die so early? HAH??!"And his dark secret love/ Does thy life destroy."
Is it rape? (Well, 'bed' and 'crimson joy', as well as 'secret love' certainly brings this to mind).
And why does the worm chomp on the rose anyway?! Why can't it feed on the darn leaves instead? How did it even get past all those thorns?
Besides the Rose is a rather ambiguous symbol, there's the 'rose' of Christianity (religion? 'Ol William doesn't do religion...Oh wait he does! Tyger, Tyger, burning bright!), the romantic rose (Yeah, William Blake belongs to the romantic era, but love poetry? I don't think so.), and the rose representing...something or the other in Greek Mythology.
Damn, I only remember the Rose Line or whatever it's called in the Da Vinci Code now...Darn you Dan Brown =(
Anyway, what can the worm symbolise? A pest?
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Ok, 'The Sick Rose' is the poem which confuses me the most so far.
But 'The Snare' is worse, considering I can't find examples of repetition. I know sentences are repeated, BUT WHERE THE @!$@#^! IS THE REPETITION?!
Is 'cry' counted? Even if it is changed to continuous and past tense... It's still the root word right?
'Cannot'?
ARGGHHHHH.
