1)
Do you think simple poems like
"The Sick Rose," which resembles a nursery rhyme, are more effective
in communicating a "message" than longer, more wordy poems?
2)
Why do you think Blake chose to
use a rose and a worm to get his point across?
3)
Do you think poems should always
come with pictures? Take a look at the illustration that accompanies "The
Sick Rose" (view the image here). Does it add anything to your
understanding of the poem?
4)
Give the substance of the poem.
5)
Justify the title of the poem.
6)
Analyze the relation between the
rose and the worm.
7)
Describe the poem The Sick Rose
as a song of experience.
8)
Explain the symbolism used in the
poem
9)
Analyze the allegory used in the
poem.
10)
Is it a lyric of protest?
Explain.
11)
How the social condition and
morality is described in the poem?
12)
The poem is written by ________________________________
13)
In the opening line the speaker
addresses to a ______________
14)
The speaker describes an ____________
15)
The worm can _____________
16)
The worm has found a bed ______________________________
17)
The love of the worm __________________________________
18)
What does ‘dark’ stands for?
19)
The love is ‘secret’ because
______________________________
20)
The rose is sick because _______________________________
21)
The rose is widely accepted as a
symbol of _________________
22)
Who is the speaker in the poem?
23)
What does the poet suggest in
using ‘crimson’ to describe the rose’s bed?
24)
How does Blake present the worm?
25)
What does innocence go side by
side with?
26)
What does poet mean by ‘Does thy
life destroy’?
27)
What is the tone of the poem?
28)
What does the worm do to the
rose?
29)
The worm is invisible
because
____________________________________
30)
What does the worm stands for?
31)
What kind of love does Blake
speak of here?
32)
How has Love in this poem seen?
33)
‘….crimson joy’ stands for
________________________________________
34)
The words ‘thou’, ‘art’,
‘thy’ stands for ________________________________
35)
The phrase ‘howling storm’ stands
for _______________________________
36)
The poem The Sick Rose is taken
from ____________________________
37)
The rhyme structure of the poem
is ______________________________
38)
The rose stands for ___________________________________________
39)
Explain how Blake illustrates the
paradoxical states of innocence and experience through the image of the ‘sick
rose’.
40)
How does the poet use the ‘night’
and ‘howling storm’ and ‘found out’ to describe the worm.
41)
Assess The Sick Rose as a symbolic
poem.
42)
How does Blake describe the rose?
How does the worm destroy the rose?
43)
“And
his dark secret love / Does
thy life destroy”. Bring out the significance.
44) Which state innocence or experience does the poem
illustrate and how?
45)
What role does
the worm play in this poem?
46)
“Innocence and experience are
essential component of human soul.” – Is this what Blake suggests in the poem.
Discuss with reference to the poem.
47)
Discuss how world of innocence
gets spoiled with the world of experience throwing light on the poem.
48)
Point out Blake’s view of man and
society as revealed in this poem.
49)
How does the love of the rose
differ from romantic love?
50)
What is the effect of the worm on
the rose? What is the effect of the rose on the worm?
51)
Give the central idea of the
poem.
52)
Give the critical analysis of
this poem.
53) What Blake’s view of man and society is as brought
out in this poem?
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