Preston Mundt Man’s desire vs. God’s will What place should the church have in one’s life? This has been a debated question for many decades. In William Blake’s poem, “The Garden of Love”, Blake declares his hatred toward the church, and claims that it has unlawfully used its powerful and vicious hand to do wrong upon society. The first stanza describes the contentment that God bestowed upon man: I went to …showed first 75 words of 717 total…

…showed last 75 words of 717 total…fact that the church came in stole what God has given man. The garden itself represents all that is holy and pure. The writer feels as if man has no place to change the ordinances and rules that God has established. Man is unholy and corrupt, and should not be able to alter Gods perfect and divine plan. He despised the fact that the church would willfully exploit God for it’s own malicious intent.