Go, Lovely Rose - Poem Analysis
Summary
TLDRIn this Try Tutors video, the poem 'Go Lovely Rose' by Edmund Waller is explored, highlighting its themes of love, beauty, and the fleeting nature of time. Waller uses the rose as a symbol to convey his message of seizing the day, urging the woman he admires to appreciate her beauty before it fades. The analysis delves into the poem's structure, including its rhyme scheme and the use of imperatives, revealing a calculated argument behind the passionate tone. The video aims to help viewers understand the poem's context, emotional depth, and the poet's historical background, encouraging them to appreciate the art of lyric poetry.
Takeaways
- 📜 'Go, Lovely Rose' is a lyric poem by Edmund Waller, known for its emotion and musicality.
- 🎭 Edmund Waller was an English poet and a member of parliament, with a history involving conspiracy and exile.
- 🌹 The rose in the poem symbolizes love, beauty, romance, and fragility, highlighting the theme of time running out.
- 💌 The speaker sends the rose as a gift to a woman he desires, hoping it will persuade her to reciprocate his feelings.
- 🗣️ Apostrophe is used in the poem, where the speaker addresses the rose as if it could communicate with the woman.
- 🎶 The poem features alliteration, assonance, and a rhyme scheme (a b a b b), contributing to its lyrical quality.
- 📝 Each stanza of the poem gives the rose instructions on what to convey to the woman, drawing comparisons to her beauty.
- 🕊️ The poem suggests that beauty is wasted if unappreciated, likening the woman's beauty to a rose that dies unnoticed.
- 🌅 The final stanza emphasizes the fleeting nature of beauty and the urgency to seize the moment, with a dramatic pause indicated by an exclamation mark.
- 📚 The poem's themes include seizing the day (Carpe diem), obsession, infatuation, time, mortality, and the celebration of physical beauty.
- 📉 The mood is passionate, and the tone varies from brazen and assertive to confident and, at times, slightly threatening.
Q & A
Who is the poet Edmund Waller?
-Edmund Waller was an English poet born in 1606 and died in 1687. He was known for writing lyric poems filled with emotion and musicality and was also a member of parliament from a young age. He was involved in a conspiracy, exiled, and narrowly avoided the death sentence.
What is the main theme of the poem 'Go, Lovely Rose'?
-The main theme of 'Go, Lovely Rose' is the celebration of beauty and the concept of seizing the day. The poem uses the rose as a symbol to represent love, beauty, romance, and fragility, emphasizing the transient nature of beauty and the importance of appreciating it before it fades.
What is the significance of the rose in the poem?
-The rose in the poem symbolizes love, beauty, and romance, but also represents fragility and mortality, as roses are known to die quickly after being harvested. This symbolizes the theme of running out of time and the need to appreciate beauty while it lasts.
What literary device is used when the speaker addresses the rose as if it were a person?
-The literary device used when the speaker addresses the rose as if it were a person is called apostrophe. This figure of speech personifies the rose, giving it the ability to communicate and carry a message to the woman the speaker admires.
What is the purpose of the speaker sending the rose to the woman in the poem?
-The speaker sends the rose to the woman as a gift and a message. He hopes that through the rose, he can convey his admiration and desire to be with her, and that the rose's beauty and transient nature will convince her to seize the moment and reciprocate his feelings.
What is the structure of the poem 'Go, Lovely Rose'?
-The structure of 'Go, Lovely Rose' includes a rhyme scheme of a b a b b, with alternating short and long lines that rhyme together. The poem uses imperatives to create a commanding and demanding tone, reflecting the speaker's calculated argument for why the woman should be with him.
What is the tone of the poem?
-The tone of the poem is passionate, brazen, blunt, assertive, confident, and at times, frustrated and threatening. The speaker's tone reflects his strong desire and the urgency of his message.
What is the mood of the poem?
-The mood of the poem is one of infatuation and lust, with an undercurrent of frustration due to the woman's apparent rejection of the speaker's advances.
What is the message the speaker hopes the woman will understand from the dying rose?
-The speaker hopes that when the woman sees the rose die, she will understand the mortality of her own beauty and be motivated to seize the moment, appreciating and acting on her beauty while it is still vibrant.
How does the poem use repetition to emphasize its themes?
-The poem uses repetition of phrases like 'sweet and fair' and 'how small a part of time' to emphasize the transient nature of beauty and the urgency to appreciate it. This repetition creates cohesion and reinforces the poem's themes.
What is the significance of the poem's title 'Go, Lovely Rose'?
-The title 'Go, Lovely Rose' is significant as it sets the stage for the poem's narrative. It introduces the rose as the messenger and the central symbol, and the imperative 'Go' reflects the speaker's command for the rose to carry his message to the woman.
Outlines
📜 Introduction to 'Go, Lovely Rose' by Edmund Waller
This paragraph introduces the poem 'Go, Lovely Rose' by Edmund Waller, providing historical context about the poet, born in 1606 and a member of parliament who faced exile and a death sentence. Waller is known for his lyric poems characterized by emotion and musicality. The poem uses the rose as a symbol of love, beauty, and romance, but also as a symbol of fragility and mortality, reflecting the theme of time running out. The speaker in the poem sends a rose to a woman he admires, hoping to persuade her through the beauty and message of the rose.
🌹 The Rose as a Symbol and the Speaker's Argument
In this paragraph, the speaker of the poem uses the rose to convey his message to a woman he desires. He employs an apostrophe to personify the rose, giving it the ability to communicate his feelings. The rose is instructed to tell the woman that her beauty is being wasted if it is not appreciated, using an anecdote of a rose in the desert to illustrate the point. The speaker argues that beauty needs to be acknowledged and celebrated, and that the woman should accept being desired and admired for her beauty.
🕰 The Imperative of Beauty's Appreciation and Mortality
The final paragraph delves into the themes of time and mortality, emphasizing the transient nature of beauty. The speaker uses the rose to communicate the urgency of seizing the moment, suggesting that the woman's beauty, like the rose, will eventually fade. He employs a dramatic tone, with a pause indicated by an exclamation mark, to stress the importance of the message. The poem concludes with a reflection on the brief time we have to appreciate the beauty of roses and people, urging the woman to act while her beauty is at its peak.
📝 Poetic Structure and Themes
This paragraph discusses the poem's structure, including its rhyme scheme (a b a b b) and the alternating rhythm of short and long lines. The use of imperatives highlights the speaker's commanding and calculated argument. The themes of 'Carpe diem' (seize the day), obsession, infatuation, and the mortality of physical beauty are explored. The mood is passionate, and the tone ranges from brazen and assertive to confident and, at times, threatening. The poem is presented as a one-sided message from the speaker to the woman, with an uncertain outcome.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Edmund Waller
💡Lyric Poem
💡Rose
💡Apostrophe
💡Metaphor
💡Courtship
💡Alliteration
💡Assonance
💡Seize the Day
💡Mortality
💡Rhyme Scheme
💡Imperatives
Highlights
Introduction to the poem 'Go Lovely Rose' by Edmund Waller.
Edmund Waller's historical context as an English poet and member of parliament.
Waller's involvement in a conspiracy and his eventual exile.
Waller's reputation for writing lyric poems filled with emotion and musicality.
The significance of the rose as a symbol of love, beauty, romance, and fragility in the poem.
The poem's theme of running out of time and the speaker's desire to be with the woman he admires.
Use of apostrophe and personification to give the rose the ability to communicate.
The speaker's commanding instruction to the rose to persuade the woman of his affection.
The poem's structure with a rhyme scheme of a b a b b and its calculated argument.
The use of imperatives to emphasize the speaker's commanding and demanding tone.
The poem's exploration of themes such as beauty, time, mortality, and the fleeting nature of physical attractiveness.
The speaker's dramatic plea for the woman to seize the moment and accept his affection before her beauty fades.
The poem's mood of passion and the speaker's brazen, assertive, and at times, threatening tone.
The poem's portrayal of a one-sided courtship where the woman's perspective is not known.
The video's guidance on how to unpack scene poetry questions and strategies for IB paper one.
Encouragement for viewers to like, subscribe, and watch more educational content on the channel.
Transcripts
hello and welcome to another try tutors
video in today's video we're going to be
unpacking the poem go a lovely rose by
Edmund Waller
so a little bit of information about our
poet this is always important so we can
understand the
um poem and its message in context
Edward Boller was born in 1606 and he
died in 1687. he was an English poet and
he was a member of parliament from quite
a young age
he was involved in a conspiracy and
eventually exiled after avoiding the
death sentence so if you're interested
in an interesting historical story I
would definitely advise that you read up
on this on this man and he is known for
writing Lyric poems so they're filled
with emotion and musicality and go
lovely rose as one of his more famous
ones and it definitely includes that
emotion and musicality
go lovely rose Tallow that wastes her
time in me that now she knows when I
resemble her to see how sweet and fair
she seems to be
so before we even get into it let's talk
a little bit about context do a little
bit about what we're dealing with in
this poem so firstly the symbol of the
Rose is very important in this poem a
rose represents love beauty and romance
but we also know that roses can present
represent fragility because they will
die
um they are mortal and they are going to
die quite quickly after you you harvest
them and this is going to show this this
theme of running out of time so in this
poem the speaker is talking to this Rose
and because he's sending this Rose to
this woman who has seemingly rejected
his advances in the past and who he
really wants to be with so he's sending
this Rose as a gift but also to send a
message to the speaker no to the to the
um to the recipient the speaker saying
the message to the recipient or to this
woman that he admires and he wants to be
with
um and he's going to basically give the
rose instructions in every single stanza
on what it should be saying to the to
the woman that he's interested in so
every single stanza he's going to
highlight a different aspect of the Rose
and he's going to draw comparisons
between the rows and the women that he
desires and he hopes that through this
gift of the rose that the woman will be
convinced to go back with him
so it's a bit of an old-fashioned idea
of courtship
um so just keep that in mind so it is
slightly different to what we would
expect these days I would say
so go lovely rose we start off that
first line of repetition of the title
and he is starting with the verb
actually the first two lines he starts
with the verbs he's giving this
commanding instruction he's demanding of
the Rose
um and he uses something called
apostrophe this is a figure of speech
apostrophe
apostrophe is when you address an
inanimate object as though it is
um a human being right so he's talking
to the Rose as though he's talking to a
human being
personification in there as well because
it's giving the rose the ability to
communicate through this apostrophe he's
basically giving us the impression that
the Roses has the ability to communicate
and to speak all these different things
um and so through this apostrophe he's
giving he's emphasizing the Roses power
which he hopes that the rose is going to
have this power to persuade this woman
to be with him
tell her that wastes her time in me he
says this Rose must go and tell this
woman that she is wasting her time and
she's also wasting my time
that now she knows here we have
alliteration there so that adds to the
lyrical nature of this poem when I
resemble her to thee so when I compare
she's going to see the comparison
between the rose and herself so there we
have the metaphor the roses being
compared to the woman or the woman is
being compared to the Rose
how sweet and fair she seems to be sweet
and fair we're going to see that
repeated later on he thinks that she is
beautiful and
um he wants to be with her but this she
seems to be perhaps the speaker
references here that he doesn't know the
woman all too well
um maybe she he thinks she's sweet and
fair but please with her to stop wasting
birth at their time so that they can get
to know each other more
um notice the assonance sweet and seams
that's also creating that sort of
lyrical and musical effect
so in the stanza we're going to break
down per stanza why the speaker thinks
that the woman should be with him stands
a one because of her beauty she's very
beautiful she should not waste her time
and she should not waste his time and
she should be with the speaker
stands at two
tell her that's young and chance to have
her grace as spied that had a style
sprung in deserts where Noah man abide
thou must have uncommented died
so over here he is going to once again
command the rows you can see tell he's
demanding the rows and the woman that he
is sending the rose to
um and he's he uses this anecdote or
this imagery or this little story where
he says imagine that you have this rose
that has like this rose that I'm
presenting you it has sprung up in the
middle of the desert but there's no one
to actually watch it or to notice or
appreciate this Rose's Beauty and he
says for then this Rose is just going to
uncommend it die it's just going to die
and appreciate it does her beauty even
exist
means persistently ignored to have a
Grace of fight mean to have her beauty
observed so if someone is going to
consistently reject to have their beauty
appreciated and this is the
representation of the speaker's
perspective of beauty
um he says dislike this beautiful rose
that sprung up in the desert no men
where no men abide meaning we know
people are present to see it and so it
has died uncommended has died without
receiving any praise
so this anecdote of the beautiful
flowers spring up in the empty or ice in
a desert with no one to witness or
admire the beauty the speaker relates
that her beauty is wasted if no men are
around it to appreciate it so he says if
you don't have your beauty appreciated
then it's like it doesn't even exist at
all then it's uncommended died it's
nothing so the second stanza what's his
reasoning for the fact that the woman
should be with him was that she's very
beautiful but if her beauty does not go
appreciated then you know is it really
Beauty at all
smallest the worth of Beauty from the
light retired but her Comfort suffer
herself to be desired and not blush so
to be admired in this stanza the speaker
saying that he should be that the woman
should be with him because she should be
proud of her beauty so going off from
the previous stanza he's like if your
beauty is not appreciated then sort of
what's the point he says rather you
should be proud of your beauty so he
says beauty is nothing unless if it's
appreciated and to him being appreciated
means that it's in the spotlight that
it's admired by men
he says bid her comfort so now he goes
sort of back to his mission he uses the
verb again he's like being commanding
um so he tells the rose to make the
woman come forward
suffer herself to be desired so at first
he says she might suffer she may
struggle with this idea that she should
be desired but she must just accept it
you know suffer herself to be desired it
may be a challenge at first but then she
must get over it and she must accept
being desired this is what the speaker's
saying and not blush so to be admired he
says she should not
um be ashamed of her beauty she should
bask and be proud she should bask in the
compliments and be proud of her beauty
um not recede from it
then the last stanza where he gets even
more dramatic he says then die that she
is a common fate of all things rare May
read in the theme how small a part of
time they share that are so wondrous
sweet and fair
so in this stanza he is going to
basically communicate this idea that
Beauty has a shelf life and he says the
final reason why the woman should be
with him is because you are going to
lose all your beauty soon you'll die
like everything else but also your
beauty will die your beauty will fade so
sort of seize the moment and be with me
now while your beauty is still
long-lasting
then die this is the instruction to the
Rose and to the woman perhaps the
potential lover and he tells the rose to
die and we have this exclamation mark in
the middle of the line so that's an
example of sejura when there's this very
dramatic pause in the middle of a line
and that exclamation mark indicates the
demanding nature and the frustrated tone
of the speaker
notice the enjoyment in the first two
lines that she the common fate of all
things rare and this in German the run
on lines emphasizes how time is passing
right the clock is ticking your beauty
is fading
the common fate of all things rare this
is such a wonderful line I think because
there's a little bit of a contradiction
because you talk about a common
and then rare but what he means this is
like the fundamental message of the poem
is he says all beautiful things die so
he hopes that when the woman sees the
Rose die she will understand the
mortality of her own Beauty and will be
motivated to seek the speaker May read
in thee meaning that hopefully when she
sees you die when she sees the Rose die
she's going to come to terms with this
idea and she's going to figure out that
she needs to make the best of the beauty
while she has it
and then the last two lines it's sort of
this general statement where he sums
everything up he says how small a part
of time they share that are so wondrous
sweet and fair so he talks about the
qualities of roses and the qualities of
the woman's Beauty he says you have
limited time to experience their beauty
and you see sweet and fair repeated from
the first stanza so the sort of cohesion
to the piece
so in terms of the structure do we have
a rhyme scheme a b a b b we have a
regular rhythm the lines alternate we
have short and long lines all the short
lines rhyme and then the long lines
rhyme together there's a lot of use of
imperatives as well where he's being
very commanding and demanding the
structured nature of the poem emphasizes
that the speaker is making a calculated
argument it is a lyric poem but he is
making this argument to the it's very
well thought out it's not just a typical
love poem in the sense of you know if
you think of some love poems which is
just free verse where he's just like
expressing his love no he's making a
calculated argument as to why this woman
should be with him and so therefore we
have a very structured
um the structure is quite structured and
precise and calculated
the um theme and the message seize the
day or you can call it Carpe diems sees
the day Obsession infatuation and lust
time and mortality our Beauty should be
celebrated and how it is Mortal that it
does fade and physical beauty is also
very much a key theme the mood is quite
passionate the tone is brazen blunt
assertive confident frustrated and the
Last Dance a little bit threatening so
depending on where you are what lines
you are referencing you can use
different words to really unpack that
um it's definitely a one-sided poem in
the sense that we don't know what the
woman's all about or you know we don't
know much history but all we know is
that the speaker is sending this message
of the Rose in an attempt to convince
the woman to be with him we don't know
if he's successful or not with this
strategy
I hope that you found that video helpful
in terms of your understanding on the
poem
um please remember to watch my video on
how to unpack scene poetry questions and
I even have a video on IB paper one just
going through all of the different
techniques or all the different
strategies I would advise when you're
attempting a three-hour paper
please like this video And subscribe to
the channel and I'll see you the next
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