According to Harold Bloom (Blake 's Apocalypse : A Study in Poetic Argument , 1963 , the "dark secret love " of the rose is a "jealous lust for possession of the Devourer , the reasonable Selfhood that quests only to appropriate (135 . Here Bloom argues that the rose is less innocent than might first appear to the reader , and that opens another avenue of thought , as to why Blake issued his appeal to the rose and not to worm , which supposedly represents a male...











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