At first glance, the poem, "The Garden of Love" may appear simplistic and even depressing Blake writes most often in regular rhythm, seemingly sticking to the rules, blunt observations on such subjects as tigers, lambs and roses. At first glance one might think it was supposed to be a dismal look on how we are much happier as naive children. "Tomb stones where flowers should be" could be thought to mean that tombstones are sad …showed first 75 words of 971 total…

…showed last 75 words of 971 total…as children, we, as parents, can make it better for them by not forcing them to have a childhood and be just like us. The poem seems to say that we can recreate the joys of childhood without becoming children again. If we don't let change and experience trap our imagination and creativity then we can keep society's views from preventing us enjoying and cherishing the mortal life we have been given on this earth.