 In addition, in the context of Blake's poem, the Sunflower may "represent" the Church of England (corrupted, repressive and earthbound in Blake's view); or the yearning of the human spirit for the liberty of Eternity; or a child of God whose desire, unlike the earthly frustrations of the Youth and Virgin, leads to heaven.The two human figures also seem to be symbols of something and much of what the critics have said about them might also apply to the Sunflower.They are dead, unlike the Sunflower, and yet have the same aspirations towards what might be the "unfallen world, called Paradise in the Bible and the Golden Age in the Classics."