A Lost Virgin:A Figurative Interpretation of William Blake’s“The Sick Rose
In order to have a better understanding of William Blakes romantic poem“The Sick Rose,this paper takes a close reading of the poem via probing into its wordsliteral and figurative meanings.Accordingly,two layers of understanding of this poem are revealed.In a literal sense,this poem depicts a scene where a rose was harassed and destroyed by an unnoticeable worm in a dark stormy night.In a figurative sense,this poem can be interpreted as a beauty who lost her virginity to someone of iniquitous morality in a dark stormy night.Such a figurative interpretation is justified by the writing skills maneuvered by the poet: the choice of words,the rhetorical devices of synaesthesia and personification,the narrative point of views,the“foreshadowingtechnique,and the repetition of vowel sounds and the lamentable tone.All of those findings highlight the typical feature of Romanticism in literature: strong emotion and bold imagination.
William Blake “The Sick Rose Romanticism a Lost Virgin
Pan Wen
College of Foreign Languages and Cultures,Sichuan University,Chengdu 610064,China
国际会议
2018东北亚语言学文学和教学国际论坛(2018 NALLTS)
呼伦贝尔
英文
86-89
2018-07-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）