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Description Whereas conventional depictions of Eve's creation show her emerging from Adam's side, Blake depicts her arrival in Eden fully-formed, in a scene that evokes a ritual of marriage. As the angel presents the first woman to her wide-eyed, evidently pleased mate, she meets his gaze with curiosity and self-possession. The landscape completes the meaning of the scene: the grapevines symbolize marriage, the plumed birds represent their newly created souls, and Adam's giant oak leaf forecasts their future suffering.
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