Romanticism is an artistic and intellectual movement, dating from the eighteenth to mid nineteenth century.' It specifically generated during the French Revolution, which promoted liberty and fraternity equality.'' It particularly emphasises the individual's expression and imagination, specifically focusing on the influence of nature.' Nature plays an important part in Romantic poetry, as well as childhood, imagination, youth, innocence, truth, supernatural, sublime and beauty.' All of these elements give a spiritual feel, focusing largely on a peaceful and pure world, catching emotion from the reader. Songs of Experience demonstrate the ways of how adulthood destroys the innocence of childhood, and how they grown throughout the poem.' He portrays adulthood being corrupt throughout his poetry.' Defamiliarisation is evident in the poets work, as we look at the world in a different way.' This applies to the majority of his poems, as in 'The Sick Rose' the rose is the epitome of nature, showing elements of beauty being corrupted, as the title sits problematically together, emphasising the rose being unhealthy - 'sick'.' The rhyme scheme ABCB, could relate to the sense of dread and unhappiness posed in the poem, by the sharp and quick tone that it uses.' Symbolism is again evident here, with the '_worm_' representing decay and death.' In contrast, the rose is a beautiful flower within nature, often associated with love.' The rose being '_sick_' adds to Blake's negative approach in Songs of Experience, with the message that love is also sick.' An element of Romanticism, nature, is used frequently throughout the songs. 'Tyger, tyger, burning bright In the forests of the night' Gives a catchy opening, using repetition and opposites are shown with '_bright_' and '_night__'_ contrasting between light and darkness.' This leads us to imagine that the 'tyger' is standing out in the darkness like a bright light, giving the reader an immediate image when starting the...