A Rose for Emily中玫瑰花的象征含义

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第一，美丽的玫瑰花象征着Emily渴望的爱，她生活在冷冰冰的环境中，没有感受到很多温暖的亲情和甜蜜的爱情。所以要献给Emily玫瑰花，展示着对Emily命运的怜惜；
第二，衰败的玫瑰花和全文压抑、沉闷的基调相符合，象征着死亡和衰败，象征着Emily悲剧的命运和南方传统的消逝。

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纵观玫瑰为何如此popular，就与它繁殖能力强，再生速度快，亚种繁多的生物属性与在文学里频繁出现的社会属性脱不开关系
Bouquets: Roses come in an infinite variety of colors, several sizes, and several shapes (pointed, cupped) often with many petals. It’s also hardy as a cut flower, Some flowers wilt quickly after picking, especially wildflowers.

Roses in literature

Roses appear frequently in literature, particularly in poetry, often as a metaphor for something else. It is a popular symbol of love, beauty and virtue in poetry, literature, music and art.

It has been reported that when Bob Dylan was asked to name his life’s greatest artistic inspiration, he cited “A Red, Red Rose” by the Scottish bard Robbie Burns and one University in the USA reports that its literary database contains the texts of 1161 poems on roses.

These are just a few examples of the use of roses in literature:

“An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.”
H.L. Mencken, A Book of Burlesques

“I haven’t much time to be fond of anything … but when I have a moment’s fondness to bestow, most times … the roses get it.

Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone

“My tomb shall be in a spot where the north wind may scatter roses over it.”
― Omar Khayyám

“Beauty and love pass, I know… Oh, there’s sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses-”
― F Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“You’re beautiful, but you’re empty…One couldn’t die for you. Of course, an ordinary passer-by would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she’s the one I’ve watered…”

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

And of course, no literary rose list would be complete without this one, from Shakespeare:

““What’s in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet…”

W Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

潘小舟

玫瑰首先应该是艾米莉的爱的象征，这也符合作品其中一个主题。其次，玫瑰或多或少也象征着艾米莉本人，艾米莉就像一朵娇嫩的玫瑰，在父亲过度的保护下，从未被染指过，直到凋亡的那天。文中还提到，当人们第一次走进艾米莉的闺房，看到的也正是玫瑰色的窗帘和玫瑰形状的灯。玫瑰还是艾米莉死亡的象征，就像红玫瑰象征爱情一般，白玫瑰象征着死亡，是人们在葬礼上献给死者的鲜花。红玫瑰与白玫瑰在这里，暗示着真爱之人的死亡。

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小说的标题为 《献给艾米丽的政瑰》，可玫瑰花在小说中并未出现，只是在结尾处出现了 “败了色
的玫瑰色窗帘，政瑰色的灯罩”。此处的政瑰并不是隐喻着艾米丽对美好爱情的渴望，更多的是象征福
克克纳对艾米丽的同情与怜悯。艾米丽的命运是千千万万个南方种植园制度下女性贵族的必然命运。面对这种无奈的现实，作者只能用 “献给她们政瑰”来表达自己的美好祝愿与深切同情