Which word best describes the tone of blake's "the sick rose? "o rose, thou art sick! the invisible worm, that flies in the night, in the howling storm, has found out thy bedof crimson joy, and his dark secret lovedoes thy life destroy?

 The tone that best describes this poem is despair, the term "sick" is emphasized. The rose is in a bed, which can refer to a human bed or a vegetable bed and it is understood that the rose will inevitably die. The worm, symbolizes destruction. The poem belongs to the English poet and painter William Blake (1757-1827). Blake was considered an important figure in the history of poetry and the visual arts of the Romantic Period.

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