Garden of Love 'William Blake'

I went to the Garden of Love
And i saw what i never seen
A chapel was built in the midst
Where i used to play onthe green
And the gates of this chapel were shut
And thou shalt not writ over the door
So i turned to the garden of love.
That so many sweet flowers bore
And i saw it was filled with graves,
And tomb-stones where flowers should be;
And priest in black gowns were walking their rounds
And binding with briars my joy and desires.

The Garden of love by william blake is such a haunting poem.
The experience of Blake's poem is very like that . In the first stanza he paints for us very trusting and child - like scene. " Garden " and " Love " both have pleasant association.
Garden is sweet, fresh quiet, beautiful. It also suggest order, attention and especially wonder. And love? No word in out language lends itself to so much meaning, yet is so elusive to definition. God is Love is cartainly important to this ides, and so is care , gentleness, protection, and loosely , all things " Good "

This garden is a very speacial place to the speaker. The fourth line tells us that he use d to play in the garden. " PLAY " tell us he was probably a child when he knew this place ; and "used to" lets us know that he plays there no longer . Although the speaker doesn't say so , we readers probably don't imagine this means he simply started playing somewhere else , but instead we assume that he no longer plays, and therefore is no longer a child. This assumption is mandatory, for the meaning of this poeticallegory rest on the contrast of youth.