Four Views of the Sick RoseFour Works Cited By analyzing more information from different authors, I was able to draw a greater contrast between the authors. I had a better idea of ​​what they were trying to convey when they wrote their critical essays in their books. Regardless, it was easier to judge "The Sick Rose" by having more sources to reflect on. Michael Riffaterre centers his analysis of "The Sick Rose" in "The Self-Sufficient Text" by "using only internal evidence [to analyze the poem] and determining the extent to which the literary text is self-sufficient. It seems to [ Riffaterre] that good reading involves only knowledge of the language” (39) Riffaterre identifies psychological, philosophical and genetic interpretations (linked to the “mythological tradition”) as “outward-looking”. approaches find the meaning of the text in the relationship of its images to other texts” (40). Riffaterre argues for a more internal reading of the poems. Riffaterre emphasizes the importance of the relationships between words as opposed to their “corresponding realities” (40). ).For example, he states that "flower or fruit is a variation of the worm's dwelling constructed by destruction. Thus, as a word, worm only has meaning in the context of flower, and flower only. in the context of worm” (41). After Riffaterre's reading and interpretation of the poem, he concludes that "The Sick Rose" is composed of "polarized words" (44) which convey the central object of the poem, the phrase itself, "the sick rose" (44). . He asserts that "because the text provides all the elements necessary to identify these verbal artifacts, we do not have to resort to traditions or symbols found outside the text" (44). Thus, “The Sick Rose” is a self-sufficient text. Hazard Adams takes a different approach to reading "The Sick Rose" than most critics by warning the reader that often we "overlook[s] the fact that a literary image imitates first its previous uses and secondarily what it denotes in the external world or in the domain of ideas” (13). Adams begins his analysis by examining the rose, and with this. reminding the reader that in “a literary world where the rose is seen archetypally, all things have a human form” (14). It thus allows the rose to become an integral part of the speaker. He takes his idea a step further by suggesting that the speaker "always addresses an aspect of himself" when addressing an object..