Select all that apply.

What qualities of the rose does Burns address in his poem?

beauty

danger from thorns

sweetness of smell

freshness

that roses are fragile

The English poet William Blake liked to play opposites off each other. He didn't have much use for the old rose symbol, so he wrote a poem about a dying rose.

The Sick Rose

O rose, thou art sick!

The invisible worm,

That flies in the night,

In the howling storm,

Has found out thy bed

Of crimson joy,

And his dark secret love

Does thy life destroy.

Roses have appeared in thousands of poems. Trying to make the symbol of the rose new every time is extremely difficult. Here, the modernist poet Gertrude Stein gives her take on the famous poetic symbol.

Red Roses

A cool red rose and a pink cut pink, a collapse and a sold hole, a

little less hot.

The meaning here is not as clear.

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Fisher Holden

English

19 December, 03:16

Select all that apply.

What qualities of the rose does Burns address in his poem?

beauty

danger from thorns

sweetness of smell

freshness

that roses are fragile

The English poet William Blake liked to play opposites off each other. He didn't have much use for the old rose symbol, so he wrote a poem about a dying rose.

The Sick Rose

O rose, thou art sick!

The invisible worm,

That flies in the night,

In the howling storm,

Has found out thy bed

Of crimson joy,

And his dark secret love

Does thy life destroy.

Roses have appeared in thousands of poems. Trying to make the symbol of the rose new every time is extremely difficult. Here, the modernist poet Gertrude Stein gives her take on the famous poetic symbol.

Red Roses

A cool red rose and a pink cut pink, a collapse and a sold hole, a

little less hot.

The meaning here is not as clear.

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Brock Bass · Answer 1

The qualities of the rose which Burns addresses in his poem is that roses are fragile.

Explanation:

This is because the poet has referred the roses to be sick in the first very line of the extract. He says that there are invisible obstacles that the roses go through. There are flies which disturbs the rose and the peace in which it stays. The life of the roses are destroyed by these flies.