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Garden Turned Image Willam Blake Love Explore I

Front Willam Blake - The Garden of Love
Explore:
'So I turned to the Garden of Love,
That so many sweet flowers bore' x5
Back •Isaiah - All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way
•sibilance resembles hissing snake sound symbolic temptation, or soft image of security => contrasts threat and menace in second stanza 
•long vowels 'sweet flowers' - to extend experience & retain as long as possible? => soothing, airy atmosphere to pastoral scene 
•pure image + fertilisation from bees via pollination + 'flower' pet name 
•bore => past tense

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