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Church Sexuality Willam Blake Garden Love Explore Gates

Front Willam Blake - The Garden of Love
Explore:
'And the gates of this chapel were shut,
And ('Thou shalt not') writ over the door;' x3 (large)
Back •What is the church shutting out? Promiscuity? Adultery? Idea of church imposing judgement on sexuality + conduct
•Contextually significant => church inflicted a lot of violence on homosexuals - modern theory is poem potentially comments on sexuality  + punishment of people who were sexually transgressive 
•'door' first thing you see and in your face - microcosm for how openly oppressive society was towards alternative sexualities to heterosexuality 

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