The Garden of Love by W. Blake, Appunti di Inglese

Scarica The Garden of Love by W. Blake e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! The Garden of Love William Blake was born in 1757, he was an early romantic, an artist and a poet. During his life he got interested in art and literature, developing new themes concerning freedom, imagination, innocence and experience. In his works he used a simple language so that lower class could understand too. His most famous works are “ Songs of Innocence” and “ Song of experience”. He had a specific vision of life which consisted in “ complementary opposites”. He thought that the possibility of progress was led to these complementary opposites such as good and evil or cruelty and kindness. The Garden of Love is taken from Blake's collection “ Songs of Experience” written after the outbreak of the french revolution. In this collection Blake imagines a bard who questions the themes of the previous collection. I went to the (GARden of leva a Jana 8 what | never had BEER b A VERBBBI was built in the midst, c Where | used to play on the green. b And the gates of this Chapel were shut, a And Thou shalt not. writ over the door; b So | turn'd to the Garden of Love, c That so many sweet flowers bore. b {And | saw it was filled with graves, Aid tomb-stones where WIBWIBIE should be: {And Priests in black GERE, WERENKZIKiRg their rounds, linternal rime gowns-rounds {Ana binding with IBi&, my joys & desires briars-desires Contrasting settings In this poem Blake presents us two symbolic and contrasting settings: the garden used to be a place of p/ay, flowers and joy, while now it has been filled with graves. In addition to that its inhabitants are priests with their restrictive practices. layout The poem has 3 stanzas of 4 lines each, so 3 guatrains