| Front | The Garden of Love - William Blake Explore 'And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires.' x4 |
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| Back | •'black' colour imagery for sadness + restriction OR associated with the industrial revolution starting 1760s •binding - image of fastening with perhaps thread is restrictive and confining - binding also tends to be long-term or permanent, suggesting the desires will never be accepted •alliterative plosive consonants /b/ and /d/ •internal rhyme presented in the assonances of 'briars' and 'desires'- acoustically binding them |
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