Blake and Wordsworth

The poem “The Garden of love” by William Blake is about a person who tells his story that he went to the garden of love, where he used to play and saw that a chapel was built in the center and the gates were closed with an order not to enter. The garden of love that he found bore the sweet flowers he knew and instead it was filled with graves and tombs-stones, priests who were binding briars around his joy and desires.

In Blake’s poem we see the church as the transcendent figure that enforces religion and social morals on the people and many people were sexually repressed at this time. The narrator is writing about his personal experience, the church repressed him from expressing love, joy and desires and he could not play anymore the game of love so, love became a cemetery. The standards set by the church made it impossible for anyone to play the games of love. The doors of the...