Four Views of The Sick Rose :: sick

quad Views of The Sick Rose     Four Works Cited   By analyzing more instruction from different authors, I was able to draw a greater descend contrast from the authors.   I had a better feel for what they were trying to withdraw when they wrote their critical essays in their books.  Whatever the case, it was easier to judge The Sick Rose by having more sources to reflect upon.   Michael Riffaterre centers his analysis of The Sick Rose in The self-sustaining Text by using internal evidence and to psychoanalyze the poem and to determine to what extent the literary text is self-sufficient. It seems to Riffaterre that a proper knowledge entails no more than a knowledge of the language (39). Riffaterre identifies psychological, philosophical, and genetic interpretations (connected to fabulous tradition) as aiming outwards. These approaches find the meaning of the text in the kinship of its subdivisions to other texts (40). Riffaterre argue s for a more internal reading of the poems. Riffaterre emphasizes the importance of the relationships surrounded by words as opposed to their corresponding realities (40). For example, he states that the flower or the fruit is a variant of the worms dwelling constructed through destruction. Thus, as a word, worm is meaningful only in the context of flower, and flower only in the context of worm (41). After Riffaterres reading and interpretation of the poem, he concludes that The Sick Rose is composed of polarized polarities (44) which convey the central object of the poem, the genuine phrase, the sick rose (44). He asserts that because the text provides all the elements necessary to our identifying these literal artifacts, we do not have to resort to traditions or symbols found outback(a) the text (44). Thus, The Sick Rose is a self-sufficient text.   Hazard Adams takes a different approach to reading The Sick Rose than most critics by cautioning the reader that often one ov erlooks the fact that a literary image primarily imitates its previous usages and secondarily what it denotes in the outer world or in the realm of ideas (13). Adams begins his analysis with examining the rose, and by reminding the reader that in a literary world where the rose is seen archetypally, all things have human body-build (14). Thus he allows for the rose to be able to become part of the vocaliser. He carries his idea one step further by suggesting that the speaker always addresses some aspect of himself when speaking to an object.