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Hilda Doolittle's Sea Rose

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In the Victorian Age, poetry mostly focused on the domestic lifestyle of the middle class individuals. Previously, Romanticism focused on the experience of seeing the sublime in nature which was mostly a large scene being depicted for the reader. In Hilda Doolittle’s poem, “Sea Rose,” she instead focuses solely on a single rose. This was one of the Imagist ideals, to have “clear and immediate images” (2057) that give “direct treatment to the ‘thing’” (2057). The entire sixteen-line poem focuses on a rose that the speaker is viewing. However, the poem is not an image of a beautiful red rose like the reader would assume. Previously, almost all of the nature poems are about the beauty or awe in nature, not the dismal and decaying parts. Doolittle
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