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What Does a Blue Rose Stand For?
What Does a Blue Rose Stand For?. The blue rose is a mythical flower. Horticulturalists endeavor to create blue roses with dyed petals or through hybridization that creates purplish approximations of a blue rose, but true blue roses do not exist. Still, a blue rose may convey a range of ideas.
The blue rose is a mythical flower. Horticulturalists endeavor to create blue roses with dyed petals or through hybridization that creates purplish approximations of a blue rose, but true blue roses do not exist. Still, a blue rose may convey a range of ideas.
The Unnatural and Unexplained
Blue roses symbolize the unnatural or unexplained.
In the seminal 1990s television series, "Twin Peaks," FBI agent Gordon Cole uses the term "blue rose cases" to describe unsolved crimes involving events that cannot be rationally or scientifically explained. David Lynch's surreal noir television epic uses the unreal nature of the blue rose to evoke an aura of the supernatural.
Nonconformity
Blue roses symbolize the beauty of nonconformity.
In the Tennessee Williams stage classic, "The Glass Menagerie," the lead character, Laura Wingfield, is given the nickname "Blue Roses," a mispronunciation of "pleurosis," the disease that has left her disabled. Jim O'Connor, the acquaintance who gives her the nickname, encourages her to celebrate the fact that she's not like other people.
"They're common as---weeds," he says, "But---you---well, you're---Blue Roses!"
The Unattainable
Blue roses symbolize the unattainable.
It's probably a good thing that you can't really send a blue rose to the object of your affections. The blue rose is a symbol of fantasy and impossibility, according to Rosegathering.com. Symbolically speaking, the dream lover who is your own personal "blue rose" is the one you'll never be able to attain.
Rudyard Kipling echoed this sentiment in his poem "Blue Roses," which tells the story of a tragic quest to find a blue rose to satisfy the whims of a frivolous paramour.
