Every single person that visits PoemAnalysis.com has helped contribute, so thank you for your support. In the other hands, the word “green” looks like shows the reader a childhood experience that brings out the innocence and the purity, yet it could be assumed as “a lack of experience or a youth stupidity.” It is because Blake also states that “I” (the speaker) is accustomed to playing there, then it leads that person to a reality that there is something “great” lie upon the world. These also form the first part of the Christian Bible. Untuk lelehan keju di lengkung bibirmu, aku ada. I’d like to start my analysis of William Blake’s “The Garden of Love” with those lines by William Blake. The present day scene looks quite dismal where even such a simple resort as the garden is unable to escape the evils of industrialization and subsequent phenomenon of private ownership. However, that didn’t make him to blindly follow religion and religious practices. Sunflower - Imagery, symbolism and themes, The Lilly - Imagery, symbolism and themes, The Garden of Love - Synopsis and commentary, The Garden of Love - Language, tone and structure, The Little Vagabond - Synopsis and commentary, The Little Vagabond - Language, tone and structure, The Little Vagabond - Imagery, symbolism and themes, The Human abstract - Synopsis and commentary, The Human Abstract - Language, tone and structure, The Human Abstract - Imagery, symbolism and themes, Infant Sorrow - Language, tone and structure, Infant Sorrow - Imagery, symbolism and themes, A Poison Tree - Language, tone and structure, A Poison Tree - Imagery, symbolism and themes, A Little Boy Lost (E) - Synopsis and commentary, A Little Boy Lost (E) - Language, tone and structure, A Little Boy Lost (E) - Imagery, symbolism and themes, A Little Girl Lost - Synopsis and commentary, A Little Girl Lost - Language, tone and structure, A Little Girl Lost - Imagery, symbolism and themes, To Tirzah - Imagery, symbolism and themes, The Schoolboy - Language, tone and structure, The Schoolboy - Imagery, symbolism and themes, The Voice of the Ancient Bard - Synopsis and commentary, The Voice of the Ancient Bard - Language, tone and structure, The Voice of the Ancient Bard - Imagery, symbolism and themes, A Divine Image - Language, tone and structure, A Divine Image - Imagery, symbolism and themes. Those rules, which forbid the celebration of the body, kill life itself. The word “midst” initiates the depiction of disharmony between the government, the clergymen, commoners. But now it seems that the Garden has been lent or sold out to a private individual who exerts the sole authority and hence, the others are devoid of any joyous moment. The garden here also has this double aspect. Start with the trochaic tetrameter as the first stanza shows, and at the second stanza, it turns into the dactylic trimeter. The negative commandments of the Old Testament, ‘Thou Shall Not’ could not enshrine the most positive creative force on earth. 1 Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? In the poem The Garden of Love, William Blake explains how the Church has taken away the happiness of the people by imposing a lot of restrictions on their freedom and the things which used to comfort them.