The Garden of Love

What the use of “I” (line 1) suggests about this poem?

The allusion the speaker makes in line 1.

• the Garden of Eden

• Children were playing mad

• carefree

• He has no idea

what has been constructed on the approach to the garden?

how what you identified in line 4 can be considered metonymy?

What does the word 'midst' (line 3) mean in the context of the stanza?

word to describe the tone of line 4 and give a reason for your choice

Give a reasons why the speaker cannot enter the Chapel.

• He did not have a key

• The dook was blocked

• The door was locked

• “Thou shalt not enter"

Why this new building does not seem very welcoming?.

• no reazon

• The door was closed

• Priests are on patrol and doing his round

• It was dark

What do you understand by the expression “walking their rounds” (line 11)?

The speaker seems to paint a negative picture of what the garden has become. Without changing the 'facts', pick how a different (positive) impression could have been created.

• the Church had been painted in a positive light

• more welcoming

• less forbidding

• All of the options