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Blake's "The Garden of Love".(artist and poet William Blake)(Critical Essay)
From: The Explicator
Date: 20010322
Author:CERVO, NATHAN A.
The phrase "'Thou shalt not"' in line 6 of William Blake's poem "The Garden of Love" has not been adequately explicated. Critics have been content to read it as representing the Ten Commandments in their entirety. Such a reading carries Blake's antinomianism to the point of actually inverting each of the commandments. Thus, "Thou shalt not commit adultery" is subverted to signify Blake's indifferent attitude toward adultery. One may also appear to be licensed to dishonor one's parents, and so on. Such a dissolute reading does great damage to the students to whom it is ...
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