Love and Harmony

Love and Harmony by William Blake

Love and Harmony is a poem about the love between a man,there are many point to prove this

this throughout the poem. This poem is also about the making of a baby, and that baby growing into

and adult and repeating the pattern of life. Love and Harmony has many hidden meanings that you

have to read into. This is classified as a short or simple poem since it is only twenty lines long.

The first “paragraph” in the poem is talking about the man and woman falling in love. The

reference used here is the branches which can be referring to anything, most likely it is referring to the

tree in the Garden of Eden. The other meaning can also mean a man and a woman making a family

together. The way that is referenced is “While thy branches mix with mine, and our roots together

join.” That can mean the meeting of the reproductive fluids needed to make a baby.

“Joys upon our branches sit, chirping loud and singing sweet” can mean the birth of the baby,

since having a baby brings joy to most. It also is a sweet time in peoples lives ad can cause a lot of talk

which is what William Blake was referring to in the “chirping loud and singing sweet” statement. That

statement can also mean the bliss that you get at the end of love making between a man and woman.

“Innocence and virtue meet”, can mean the women losing her pureness to the man she loves.

“There she sits and feeds her young,” is representing the woman sitting feeding the baby they

made together. “I hear her mournful song,” can mean that the woman is singing a nursery rhyme to the

baby. She also could be singing a mournful song, because maybe something happened to the dad of

child. She also seems like she feeds the child outside “thy lovely leaves among,” or she could have

children by the man and is watching them play. She also loves her children very much since it says

“there is love, I hear his tongue.” That statement could also...