My Pretty Rose-Tree by William Blake

A flower was offered to me,
Such a flower as May never bore;
But I said, "I've a pretty rose-tree",
And I passed the sweet flower o'er.

Then I went to my pretty rose-tree,
To tend her by day and by night;
But my rose turned away with jealousy,
And her thorns were my only delight.

My own personal view is of "Flower" as a sign the feelings and happiness of human access to opportunities, "Rose Tree " symbolizes the marriage. I'm out of traditional thinking, to give up the chance to be happy, but get is ridicule and harm. In reality, there are many contradictions, need to carefully distinguish between the people do.

The poem might also suggest that there is a sado-masochistic element to fidelity.

It's a poem that reads uncomplicated in verse, but operates on many levels. The rose is always taken to epitomise love, and casts a romantic level on the surface, the reader is able to peel away the many layers of the poem. Although the flower’s advances are rejected and the speaker continues in faithfulness to the rose, the rose reacts with jealousy. For all the careful and constant tending, he is rewarded with painful thorns. “And her thorns were my only delight” suggests to me, that the speaker may not be altogether unhappy with the rose’s response of jealousy; the thorns may be the price he is willing to pay for their continued relationship. Delight may also be an oxymoron, thorns being rarely linked to delight. Another dynamic in the jealousy and resulting thorns is that the rose has become possessive and seeks to guard her lover from others. In this case he truly delights in her thorns as a symbol of her love for him.

Turniny away from a vision (opportunity, gift) of fulfillment or perfection through fear of losing the familiar. The familiar though can never be the same again.