Little girl lost

• "children of the future age.. I know that love! Sweet love! Was thought a crime"

  Blakes direct address to the audience expressing his awareness that social change will happen
• "parents were afar, strangers came not near and the maiden soon forgot her fear"


  Away from social expectations the lovers had no guilt and shame about their love"
• "his loving look like the holy book all her limbs with terror shook"


  Parental love, he means to protect her but actually damages her by enforcing religious social standards
• "Ona! Pale and weak!.. shakes the blossoms of my hoary hair"


  Nature/seasonal imagery to show the death of passion in society, misplaced parental care causing oppression