pebble "suggests a sort of aggressive, violent and masculine view of love". Literary influence The last stanza of the poem, the pebble's view of selfish love, was used as the epigraph for Evelyn Scott's 1921 novel The Narrow House. According to Pat Tyler, the women in this novel have been "hardened by her life experiences. Each is solely concerned with her own survival, hardened to the suffering of the others". The poem is also referenced, albeit misquoted, in the Goshawk by T. H. White. References External links Comparison of hand painted extant copies of "The Clod and the Pebble" available from the William Blake Archive An Annotated Bibliography of interpretations of the poem 1794 poems Songs of Innocence and of Experience