Blake represents two different kinds of love in this poem. While the clod's love represents innocence and is altruistic in nature, the pebble's love is tainted by experience and is riddled with vanity and selfishness. The clod's love is probably Blake's idea of true love, love that is mature in its own way, love that finds pleasure in sacrificing its own comfort for its lover's happiness. On the other hand, the pebble's love is more superficial, and easily breakable. There is something cold about the 'experienced' love, which suggests that as one becomes older, and more materialistic, the innocent selflessness is replaced by a self-satisfying nature. The clod's heart is malleable, soft and open, whereas the pebble's heart is like stone, there is no room for change. The clod love is ruled by love for another person and the pebble's love by love for its self.
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