Comparison_Analysis_Of_“One_Perfect_Rose“_By_Dorothy_Parker

Comparison Analysis Of “One Perfect Rose“ By Dorothy Parker Comparison Analysis of "One Perfect Rose" by Dorothy Parker and "Go, Lovely, Rose" by Edmund Waller. For many centuries, young men have been telling their sweethearts about fleeting youth and passion which, like a candle, burns brightly but dies out slowly but surely. This paper is an examination of how the rose is used as such a symbol in the poems "One Perfect Rose" by Dorothy Parker and "Go, Lovely, Rose" by Edmund Waller. Waller’s poem is shown to use an interesting variation on the usual theme by addressing himself directly to the rose, telling it to bear his message to the woman he admires, whereas, with Parker's poem the speaker reveals her feelings about receiving one rose from her beau. Their themes -- the inconstancy of romantic love -- are similar, though Parker uses an object suggesting money to replace the rose as a symbol of love. The speaker in "Go, Lovely, Rose" sends a rose to his beloved. The rose is sent to deliver a message: This young lover is trying to tell his beloved that their time is too short for such petty things as hiding and acting ignorant when she knows that he admires her. He is rose, love, speaker, one, time, poem, perfect, parker, lovely, go, young, romantic, message, beloved, waller, telling, symbol, something, lover, beauty, youth, way, wanted, waller’s, trying, thing, speaker’s, single, sent, sends, sender, seems, remind, receiving, physical