Blue Roses
Blue Roses - meaning Summary
Desire for Impossible Things
The poem narrates a speaker’s futile search for an impossible prize—his beloved’s wish for ‘‘blue roses.’’ He travels widely and returns too late; she dies still longing for the unattainable. The tone mixes earnestness and rueful resignation. In the end the speaker accepts ordinary roses as sufficient, acknowledging that some desires are idle or beyond reach while mourning the cost of pursuing them literally rather than understanding their meaning.
Read Complete AnalysesRoses red and roses white Plucked I for my love's delight. She would none of all my posies-- Bade me gather her blue roses. Half the world I wandered through, Seeking where such flowers grew. Half the world unto my quest Answered me with laugh and jest. Home I came at wintertide, But my silly love had died Seeking with her latest breath Roses from the arms of Death. It may be beyond the grave She shall find what she would have. Mine was but an idle quest-- Roses white and red are best!
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