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Death Imagery Line Garden Love William Blake Explore

Front The Garden of Love - William Blake
Explore the death imagery x4
Back •a missing syllable after ‘graves’ adds gravitas to the last word on the line
•'tomb-stones' => unnatural/man made/memorial/religious symbol + makes reader consider consequences post death + juxtaposes with 'flowers' in the same line
•black gowns => colour imagery
•briars => connotes with nettles, pain, contrasts with flowers

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