Interpreting the Poem The Sick Rose, by William Blake from the Structuralist Point of View

Haleshappa V V

Abstract: Structuralism is an extremely useful and well organized approach to literary and culturally text. It doesnt interpret the sequence of events or try to find out what they mean. Language is a composed system of signs. The relations of these elements are inseparable.

Keywords: Structuralism, cultural Arte-facts, Textuality, Autotelic Text, The New Criticism, Terry Eagleton, Ferdinand De Saussure, Arbitrariness