Garden Of Love is one of William Blake's poems from his "Songs of Experience and Innocence" era. I think the content of the poem has both innocence and experience portrayed throughout it. ... The word Garden is used throughout the poem as well as the title, to me this relays an image of innocence and purity. ...
In her song 'Both Sides, Now', Joni Mitchell shares her experience of both the illusion and reality of love. The song starts off as a meditation on clouds and the positive feel-good illusion they create, much like Jamal and Gatsby's outlook on life. ... At the time of writing the song, Mitchell's personal life was in a state of flux. ... " Not only were Mitchell's delusional ideas of love in direct alignment with those of Jamal and Gatsby, they were also a product of the era she wrote the song in. ...
In Othello, Desdemona comes off as a simple woman, full of innocence, and perfection. ... Although she seems like the picture of innocence she is not immune to human nature. When singing the Willow song it seems that she brings up Lodovico, her father's cousin. ... " Garner insisted that there is more to Desdemona than imperfection and innocence, she was fully human and comprised of a wide range of emotions. ...
One of Desdemona's most powerful speeches occurred in her final moments before Othello smothered her where she recited a song that she learned from one of her mother's maids, Barbary, "She was in love; and he proved mad And did forsake her. She had a song of willow. ... That song tonight Will not go from my mind" (IV.iii.27-30). Desdemona sings the song before she "knows- she is about to be killed by her husband. ... She attempts to plead her case of innocence one last time to her murderous husband before accepting her death. ...
"It's a weary life, it is; she said: - Doubly blank in a woman's lot: I wish and I wish I were a man; Or, better than any being, were not" In the above lines, taken from Christina Rossetti's From the Antique, she lets her speaker openly express female discontent. Apart from displaying the speaker's...
