rosebud...

If you don't know what happens in Citizen Kane and want to keep it a suprise then turn away!

Last semester in American Lit. 2 we watched Citizen Kane. One would think that I should concentrate on THIS semester but seeing as how what I'm using is old, well it must be important. I would like to start my confusing logic in the Homeric Hymns bottom of page 16 line 427.

Rosebud and lily-wonders-and the narcissus,
Which the broad earth sent growing like a crocus.
I picked it in delight. The earth beneath it
Gaped, and the strong lord, host of all the perished,
Took me below the ground in his gold chariot-
But I resisted, and I shrieked in protest.

This is Persephone being taken by Hades as we should all know by now. She was playing, enjoying what she knew, and loved.
The word rosebud is what caught my attention so you can blame it for this blog. But we see this abduction from one world into another.
Charles Foster Kane was a kid playing in the snow. With his rosebud and snowhills, he had all he needed. Then he was taken into the underworld of corruption. Money the root of all evil. His sled, rosebud, was left when he was taken. Later his captor gives him a different sled. At the end we see yet another sled being burned. When he died he uttered "rosebud" and dropped a snow globe. Rosebud may not "be" the sled but the memory of the flowers he was picking as an innocent. Please think about it and maybe comment if this at all strikes you.