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A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And 'Thou shalt not' writ over the door; So I turn'd to the Garden of Love, That so many sweet flowers bore. And I saw it was filled with graves, And tomb-stones where flowers should be: And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds,
Powered by LitCharts content and AI. "The Garden of Love" is a poem by English Romantic visionary William Blake. Blake was devoutly religious, but he had some major disagreements with the organized religion of his day. The poem expresses this, arguing that religion should be about love, freedom, and joy—not rules and restrictions.
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The twelve lines of William Blake’s poem ‘The Garden of Love’ belong to the state of Experience that characterizes the present-day world. Experience stands in total contrastto the state of Innocence. The poet revisited the Garden of Love, an open green piece of land where he used to play with boys and girls together. He was dismayed to see there wh...
In the second stanza, the poet gives a further description of the place of his revisit. The gates of the Chapel were closed. And the closed-door had got written on it ‘Thou Shalt Not.’ So, the visitor (the poet) turned his attention to the place of the Garden of Love where it used to bloom a number of flowers but found them missing. In fact, the ve...
The lines of the third stanza depict the adverse changes that have enveloped the Garden of Love during the present time. The Garden portrays an aura of total unease and misery. At present, the garden seems to be filled with graves and tombstones which are images of death, and so horrendous and undesirable. Even the priests wrapped in black gowns fo...
William Blake. Brief Summary ‘The Garden of Love’ is a poem about religion and love, generally a criticism of organized religion . In the poem, a man visits a garden from his childhood , and finds a chapel and priests, 'The Garden of Love' having changed into something dispiriting and loveless . The speaker argues that religion should have ...
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Weeping, weeping. Then I went to the heath and the wild. To the thistles and thorns of the waste. And they told me how they were beguiled. Driven out, and compelled to the chaste. I went to the ...
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Jan 8, 2018 · In summary, Blake’s speaker goes into the Garden of Love and finds a chapel built on the spot where he used to play as a child. The gates of the chapel are shut, and commandments and prohibitions are written over the door. The garden has become a graveyard, its flowers replaced by tombstones. This idea of love starting out as a land of ...
I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And ‘Thou shalt not’ writ over the door; So I turned to the Garden of Love, That so many sweet flowers bore. And I saw it was filled with graves, And tomb-stones where ...
