Comparision Between “the Fog” by Carll Sandburg and “the Sick Rose” by William BlakeJoin now to read essay Comparision Between “the Fog” by Carll Sandburg and “the Sick Rose” by William BlakeThe poems “Fog” by Carl Sandburg and the “The Sick Rose” by William Blake have many similarities and differences. Both the poems use animals and bad weather in their content. “Fog” uses a cat and the fog while in the “The Sick Rose” there is a worm and a storm. The poets use the bad weather to create a sense of unhappiness to the reader as the bad weather stops normal events from happening. For example the fog blocks the sun and makes everything seem hazy and the storm destroys plants and does damage to everything. Both the fog and the storm seem alive the poems due to the way the poets described them. Sandburg used a metaphor to make the fog seem alive. The fog becomes a cat and “It sits looking over harbour and city on silent haunches.” This could also be described as personification instead of a metaphor. Blake uses onomatopoeia, “In the howling storm” to create the same effect. Both poems’ use of foul weather conditions inflicts an undesired sense of darkness and sickness. The impression of “The Sick Rose” because of the storm is of darkness, sickness, and death. “Fog” gives us a sense of nausea, dirty streets, smoke, and grayish darkness. The immediate feeling that one gets at the very utterance of the word fog is lack of definitude and opacity
Differences include the rhyming of the poem, tone of the poem, word choices and the point of view of the writer. Blake speaks to the rose and he tells the rose how it dies while Sandburg is the third person in the poem. He is an observer. Blake’s point of view makes the tone of his poem is severe and full of grief as the poem ends with great sorrow. His attitude is brutal and intense. An example is the first line of the poem, “O Rose, thou art sick.” He jumps right into the action and his tone suggests he feels sorry for the rose. He describes the death of the rose violently and creates many strong feelings. The form and style of this poem is full of intricacy. The words are complex and the poem rhymes every 2nd line and 4th line of each stanza. In contrast, “Fog” form and style is full of
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And it is so, for a rose to fall a certain distance to reach it.
B. What the Russian Rose Poems Do
The Russian Rose Poems (Bolt-Weiss-Bolt’s Rosicrucian Poetry Library, http://www.rhot.ru/c/nf/bolt-shofr/index.html) were written in two parts in the 1970s and are still popular at large, mostly because of their strong influence on music on national and international audiences. In addition, Russia is home to five major major national and international cultural institutions like National Academy of Sciences and the Museum of Moscow, and one major international institution, Moscow Union for the International Trade in the Arts, which was founded in 1971. The first three main poems of each composition are written in Russian, but in most respects all of them resemble the Russian musical style, a few are based on Russian poems written in English, many are on Russian poets who, like me, often express their feelings through the use of Russian texts.
The Russian Rose Poems (Bolt-Weiss-Bolt’s Rosicrucian Poetry Library, http://www.rhot.ru/c/nf/bolt-shofr/index.html) were written in two parts in the 1970s and are still popular at large, mostly because of their strong influence on music on national and international audiences. In addition, Russia is home to five major national and international cultural institutions like National Academy of Sciences and the Museum of Moscow, and one major international institution, Moscow Union for the International Trade in the Arts, which was founded in 1971. The first three main poems of each composition are written in Russian, but in most respects all of them resemble the Russian musical style, a few are based on Russian poems written in English, many are on Russian poets who, like me, often express their feelings through the use of Russian texts. The Second Rites, which are both autobiographical and historical, represent the second version of the Rosicrucian poems (they began with ‘Rosicrucian’ which means “revelation”) which were first written in 1922.
They were not intended to be read in Russian as a single work and have only two main elements: 1) to take place somewhere in the Russian landscape and 2) to celebrate the life of the deceased, the rose or other kind. In a brief excerpt it is stated that on each of these first lines one shall find a poem for the rose. They are very concise, with little or no text whatsoever. The authors in Russia say that by reading one’s poems one will find only an English translation but in practice many of the basic meanings of the words appear in English. Therefore this work seems like a good study of the words and meanings of the Russian music. Here are some excerpts of one of the poems: