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The garden of love by blake annotations
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capitalization =importance = central metaphor
Ehoing green ends on
darkening metaphor for
innocent love or symbolic of the
green this is darkening
the
idyllic
=
pastoral world
the close
green Garden of Eden and
pawns of
con
this nature lapsarian world juxtaposes a to a post
-
relationship humanity should have pre
-
THE GARDEN OF LOVE
lapsarian Mona of corruption +
oppression
-
ironic -
this place is no longer exists
1- 1st person narrator - innocent dispassionate obsever
relying a truth = personal
journey =
speaker is
ambigious and represents an
figure = Universalis ing human experience
everyman
I went to the Garden of Love,
TF
And saw what I never had seen; suggests
and
freedom
a dramatic
to its
change
loss
from his
/ simple ,
youth and a time of innocence
monosyllabic lexis = Shock
A Chapel was built in the midst, two synecdoche represents oppressive religious forces of
centrality t Georgian England . This place should be connected
Where I used to play on the green. dominanance to
alien
god
+ benevolent but seems the amnetesis -
physical impediment
↳
.
loss no longer the case
past tense
suggets ,
Play'=
'
•
youthful innocence and liberty / unconscious sexuality .
[ verb) pastoral Mona and shared
symbolic of
communion word
And the gates of this Chapel were shutTg
.
Biblical illusion to the
10 commandments '
foreboding / metaphor
for oppressive religious forces
negative statements presents
A- .
Individuals are and
And 'Thou shalt not,' writ over the door;
excluded denied
Church
access
gor spirituality .
as restrictive and
punitive
monosyllabic statements _
foreboding rejecting
the authoritarian stance church enhanced
of
( vers)
metaphorical act
So I turned to the Garden of Love by unnaturally stressed syllables ironically rather
g-
: than helping humanity the church them
,
restricts .
turning away from church
That so many sweet flowers bore. symbolic innocence
fertility
1-• of and the
,
pre lapsarian world .
→
And I saw it was filled with graves, juxtaposing growers to
convey restrictive nature of Church that
only brings death and
suffering as opposed to life
And tombstones where flowers should f)
be; → juxtaposition
emotions lead
to accentuate
to
misery
the
and
stunted natural
g-
death .
exuai desire expression
And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds, →
movement
control over
suggests
individuals
they
-
are parroting
sur reliance
culture .
oppressive gatekeepers
And binding with briars my joys and☐
desires.
.ie?.i:nas..ia+eaanqpnoria
the sense
-
overwhelming
of
detail
claustrophobia
to
+
enhance
conjiement ..
::÷:÷:÷÷i unith misery + death to
reflect ☐ takes critical
☆
free love and sexual oppression
that is repressed by the
church
negative metaphor the churches
' for unnatural + oppressive Esp
control ironically echoing Christs crown thorns lack
of implying 0T rhyme = unease
and lack Of
the church brings only pain and humiliation , sacrifisins satifi cation
individuals
mirroring the
for their own speakers
pain
feelings .
-
plosive alliteration = harsh sound reflects the restrictive
and destructive
impact of the church
internal
rhyme mirrors
.
circluar
restrictive movements
Ot the priest .
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