‘The sick rose’ is one of the many ‘Songs of Experience” written by William Blake. Like all his poems in this genre, The Sick Rose portrays the pure, sacred life of a child as having become contaminated or unholy as it reaches and experiences the trials of adulthood, as well as being burdened with the fault of materialism.

Blake uses the Rose to portray a child since both are very pure

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