" The Garden of Love " is a poem by the Romantic poet William Blake. It was published as part of his collection, Experience Song .
One reading of "The Garden of Love" is that it was written to express Blake's belief in the nature of sexuality and how organized religion, especially the orthodox Christian church of Blake's time, encourages oppression of our natural desires.
If this was what Blake meant, it would be a slightly daring statement to make in due time because sexual references are implied; but many of Blake's poems and contemporaries contain criticism of the hierarchical structure of the Church and its influence on government. Blake's anger on his subject is evident from the second line when he talks about seeing "what I've never seen". It is interesting that he says that he "never" saw him when he had to grow up very conscious of the Church's attitude toward sexuality. It may then be concluded that he speaks from the standpoint of innocence that has just entered the world of experience and is in a state of shock and sadness when previous freedoms have been literally blocked and crammed by the Church. "The chapel is built in the middle of/Where I used to play in the green" The "green" has a special meaning as well because it reflects the opposite poetry in the innocence of "The Echoing Green" then the "green" readings to represent before, innocent freedom, clearer "game".
A more general alternative reading - and another in keeping with what we know about Blake, his education and politics, and the period in which he lives - is that the poem reflects only his view that the Church is the oppressor of free thought. Blake wrote a collection of Songs of Innocence to reflect the innocence of every human being who was born. The Songs of Experience - from which this poem is taken - shows the effect on the inherent innocence we all have, by government and church oppression, the Industrial Revolution, and the lack of child labor regulations among other crimes of upcoming modernism.
The first two verses of poetry are written in trimeter and loose anisik rhyme abcb . The third verse begins the same way, but the last two lines of this stanza make a sharp pause with the previous verses. These closing lines are written in a tetrameter rather than a trimeter, and they fail to maintain the rhyme scheme ( abcb ). Instead the lines are rhyming internally ( gowns / round and briars / wish ). These sudden changes in delivery serve to dramatize the changes that have taken place in this "Love Park".
Blake is a master of lyrical poetry, and one can not understand without ceasing to appreciate elements such as the careful placement of capital letters, deliberate misery in rhythms (note lines 4 and 6), and the disturbance that comes with Line 11 as the previous trimeter sequence suddenly falls into chaos with the sudden power of the tetrameter/pentameter (depending on the individual interpretation of the rhythm). The last two lines show the world that had previously fallen into chaos. He is unorthodox in his view of theology, but at the same time strongly influenced by orthodox religion, as stated by his art. He is deeply troubled by poverty, child labor, prostitution, and the hypocrisy of the Church and the oppressive nature of government. Understanding this about his personality works well in dissecting his poems.
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