Since everyone knows that William Blake was Virgina Woolf's son, it should come as no suprise that they share a postmodern sensibility. In Blake's poem, "The Sick Rose," the rose is a symbol for a tree. The worm which infects the rose symbolizes a plague of locusts that comes to kill the rose/tree. The existence of the worm/locusts is implicit in the very existence of the rose/tree, or, as Jacques Derrida might argue, the locusts deconstruct the tree.
The fact that the words "sick" and "rose" both have four letters is fundamental to the meaning
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