Garden of Love
In William Blake's Garden of Love, published in 1794, the speaker shows that from day one of any persons life, nothing remains uniform. That life is always in a state of change, disarray, and inconsistency. The speaker tries to do this by bringing you to a state of being and realization of the church, nature, and sentimental meaning. He accomplishes this task thoroughly by using many different poetic forms such as symbolism allusions and imagery. The speakers main objective is to show lives inevitable changes. That life no matter how one may remember, whether it be as a child, adult, or elder, that it will not remain constant. In Blake's poem Garden of Love the speaker shows this by telling of a life experience. He tells of a Garden, beautiful and pure, "That so many sweet flowers bore;" (8), and how it was a place of sanctuary for him in his youth. This allusion of his Garden of Love is that of Edenic imagery. He see his
In line (12), "And binding with briars my joys and desires", it has the allusion to Christ on the cross. That through individuals actions of what they think may be virtuous and moral, may indeed be an act of devastation and destruction. Whatever the case may be, the speaker has lost someone of great and dear importance to him, and no one is there for him, not even the church. Like the speaker, that found joy in his garden, he can now only seek the compassion of his own God, nature. garden as a place of peace, where nature, God, and him, are one; such as the Garden of Eden. The symbolic meaning of loosing a loved one, or loved ones. In addition, organized church did not help people of all types. As a result, the Garden of Eden and the Garden of Love became extinct and untouchable for all. He states, "And the gates of this Chapel were shut," (5), insinuating that the church had not helped or comforted him, but destroyed this equilibrium of peace that used to be present in this environment. This visual and internal image helps to, very straight forwardly, represent death. He continues his story by telling of his expedition back to his garden later in life, only to find out that his Garden of Love had ". By using this imagery he shows that even from day one of human existence, that things evolve and mutate. A retrospection of the way life used to be; a taboo feeling that used to breathe freely through their veins.
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