The writer bases his work on these elements to create intense emotions of romance. William Blake uses the concept of the exotic in “The Garden of Love” through symbolism. In the poem, the writer describes a garden he loved and played in as a child, but now its beauty has been destroyed by a chapel established there. "I went to the Garden of Love….and I saw that it was full of tombs, and gravestones instead of flowers" (2). The writer compares life and death using flowers and graves, a garden and even a chapel. While we expect a church and priests to represent life, in this case they show a restriction and a form of