Rose
Rose has been associated, with fragrance, love, beauty, riches etc over and over in poetry.
None, however, have ever used it like Gertude Stein as a part of her 1913 Sacred Emily.
She wrote:"Rose is rose is a rose is a rose"
This seemingly repetitive line has the deeper meaning that, at first, eludes us. Simple yet deep"A thing is what it is" (it has its identity) The Rose, had lost its identity for being 'just a rose' for many years in poetry (and this is merely her attempt to recover it.) Gertude Stein believed that 'in that line the rose is red for the first time in English poetry for a hundred years.'
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