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Comparison Analysis Of "One Perfect Rose" By Dorothy Parker

 

            Comparison Analysis of "One Perfect Rose" by Dorothy Parker.
             and "Go, Lovely, Rose" by Edmund Waller.
             For many centuries, young men have been telling their sweethearts about fleeting youth and passion which, like a candle, burns brightly but dies out slowly but surely. This paper is an examination of how the rose is used as such a symbol in the poems "One Perfect Rose" by Dorothy Parker and "Go, Lovely, Rose" by Edmund Waller. Waller's poem is shown to use an interesting variation on the usual theme by addressing himself directly to the rose, telling it to bear his message to the woman he admires, whereas, with Parker's poem the speaker reveals her feelings about receiving one rose from her beau. Their themes -- the inconstancy of romantic love -- are similar, though Parker uses an object suggesting money to replace the rose as a symbol of love.
             The speaker in "Go, Lovely, Rose" sends a rose to his beloved. The rose is sent to deliver a message: This young lover is trying to tell his beloved that their time is too short for such petty things as hiding and acting ignorant when she knows that he admires her. He is telling her to forget society and let her feelings lead the way. The speaker of this poem wants his mistress to understand this eagerness of his and to see her beauty and youth in a new way. He wants her to stop wasting time and give in to the beckoning call of love, to drop everything and come running to enjoy their momentary love. The young lover is commanding a rose to go and deliver his message to his sweetheart. The speaker's intentions are for his love to receive the rose, admire its beauty and, by doing so, she will be admiring herself.
             In "One Perfect Rose," the speaker receives a rose from her beau bearing a message. Words like "tenderly,"(2) "deep-hearted,"(3) "pure,"(3) "fragile,"(6) "love,"(7) and "perfect"(4, 8, *10, 12) are used to describe both the rose and it's sender to lull the reader into the belief that the speaker's intention is to describe a romantic remembrance.


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