Love and Harmony

LOVE AND HARMONY

By: William Blake

Love and harmony combine

And round our souls entwine

While thy branches mix with me

And our roots together join

Joys upon our branches sit

Chirping loud and singing sweet

Like gentle streams beneath our feet

Innocence and virtue meet

Thou the golden fruit dost bear

I am clad in flower fair

Thy sweet bought perfume the air

And the turtle buildeth there

There she sits and feeds her young

Sweet I hear her mournful song

And thy lovely leaves among

There is love, I hear his tongue

There his charming nest doth lay

There he sleeps the night away

There he sports along the day

There doth among our branches play

THE ANALYSIS OF “LOVE AND HARMONY”

The poem that entitled “Love and Harmony” almost in this poem using connotative meaning because that is not real meaning of the word that used in this poem. This poem use symbol in the sentence.

The structure of the poem is regular, and has a defined rhyming pattern of “Alliteration” in each stanza. It’s mean the poem has a positive tone where the ending words were “Combine, Entwine, Mine and Join”. That is the example from the first stanza and also the next stanza use the same structure.

The second stanza of “Love and Harmony” is rich with imagery. The reader can see on the second stanza and second line “chirping loud and singing sweet”. Then, in the fourth stanza and fourth line “There is love, I hear his tongue”. The imagery that used in this poem is auditory.

The third stanza and first line “Thou the golden fruit dost bear”. It’s mean that “golden fruit” is the energy between love, marriage harmony and freedom. The figurative language that used in this poem is metaphor.

The tree is a symbol taken from the tree of knowledge out of the Garden of Eden (notice the “golden fruit” reference in line 9). It is also intended to represent the synthesis of energy between to represent the synthesis of energy between love and marriage, harmony and freedom, a place where oppositions are unified the tree is a safety zone for the turtledove’s nest and provides shade for the speaker, yet has the ability to bear dangerous fruit-existence of opposite

The theme in this poem “Love and Harmon” this time, the dialect is marriage, and the poet is examining the interrelationship between love, freedom and harmony.

In this poem Blake use the quatrain stanza because, the poem is simple but full of meaning.

sent by Merin, a student of Pamulang University