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Exploring Love's Dual Nature

This poem contrasts two perspectives on love through the voices of a clod of clay and a pebble. The clod believes that love seeks to help others rather than itself, and can create happiness even in despair. The pebble sees love as selfishly seeking its own pleasure through controlling others, and creating misery despite happiness. The poem explores the different nature of selfless versus selfish love through the personified voices of the natural objects.

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Exploring Love's Dual Nature

This poem contrasts two perspectives on love through the voices of a clod of clay and a pebble. The clod believes that love seeks to help others rather than itself, and can create happiness even in despair. The pebble sees love as selfishly seeking its own pleasure through controlling others, and creating misery despite happiness. The poem explores the different nature of selfless versus selfish love through the personified voices of the natural objects.

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Songs of Ourselves Volume

The Clod ond the Pebble

WILLIAA,I BIAKE

'Love seeketh not itself to please,


Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.'

little Clod of Clay


Trodden with the cattle's feet,
So sung a

But a Pebble of the brook


Warbled out these metres meet:

'Love seeketh only self to please,


To bind another to its delight,
Joys in another's loss of ease,
And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.'

The poem expresses the like and


dislike of love.

Pebble: The love is superficial, Builds a


Hell in Heaven's dispair.
Clod: Everyone needs love, Builds a
heaven in Hell's despair.
Asonanse gived the poem a rhythmic structure.
Clodl lump of clay or earth
metres meetl appropriate rhymes
in. . . despitel in scornful contempt

of

Contrasts of different types of


love, the clod and the pebble,
and hell and heaven.

The clod and the pebble are


personified

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