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Garden Love Theme Forbidden William Blake Explore Title

Front William Blake - The Garden of Love
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Back •Relates to the Garden of Eden, introducing a theme of for forbidden love through the icon of the forbidden fruit.
•Of course, supporting God's oppositions opens the theme of morality, and the speaker expresses cynicism towards contemporary propriety, especially through the ironic tone generated by the inclusion of tomstones.
•The Garden of Eden was taken away for sinning - what was instinctive (eating/sex) has now become sinful (natural homosexuality - impulsive desires God-given).
•'[The chaste severity of the fathers]It was their favourite opinion, that if Adam had preserved his obedience to the creator, he would have stayed in a state of pure virginity' - Edward Gibbon

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