WILLIAM BLAKE William Blake was born on 1757. He grew up in the middle of London. Since Blake lived in a bad part of the neighborhood, he was poorly educated. Around the age of ten his father had enough money to send him to drawing school and then at fourteen he became an engraver. Blake realized that he was not any good at being artistic. Starting in 1778 Blake began making a living by giving booksellers and …
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…not only the evil but it is the wrath of God and the punishment of sin. Experience helps the tiger to become more evil and deceiving than others. In The Sick Rose, the rose symbolizes experience. The invisible worm symbolizes the sickness inside of the rose. It says that the sickness is like a sadness, that will never leave. The rose is sick because of the invisible worm and at the end the rose dies.