What is a rose?

[pjthompson]

I know it would smell as sweet by any other name, but I'm wondering what kind of symbolism, if any, has worked its way into your psyche?



[Poll #1729405]

Comments

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

RUGBY!

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

I should have known you'd appreciate that! ;-D

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

Hehe. I did indeed. I still remember my rugby-ignorant days when I wondered why Julien wore a white long-sleeve polo shirt with a red rose embroidered on it. Now I tease him for having a shirt from our great enemies. :P

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

There's an English football team with a rose, too.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

LOL

[mnfaure.livejournal.com]

Hehe. I sounded a bit enthusiastic there, didn't I? :D

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I only checked the ones I knew, but I assume they're all true? If so, that's cool about wild roses being a ward against the dead and undead.

[marycatelli]

All those thorns. . . there's reason to believe that in Homeric Greece, roses were embroidered on clothing to protect. Which adds an edge to the scene in the Iliad where Andromache is putting roses on Hector's clothing when she hears he is dead.

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

There are other traditions of roses as protection, so this rings true.

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

Yes, they're all true, and many more besides. And the undead thing...it's a vampire story. :-D

[desperance.livejournal.com]

It's the wrong colour. Wars have been fought, between those of the red rose and those of the white. I'm a Yorkist, a Ricardian; I stand by the white.

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

I honor your stance, sir.