Experience

William Blake: The Merging of Innocence and Experience in Faith When a child looks at the world everything is viewed in the worldview filter of childhood innocence. Children are able to see beauty and have faith without the influence of darkness. As adults, we grow to envy the “child-like” faith and wish that we could always see the world as beautiful, but we know that so many things in this life are complex with no clear answers. We can only observe and form our own opinions based on what we…

blames the parents and church for allowing the ongoing suffering to the children. Child labor is a major element discussed along with the reoccurring reminder of the conditions the chimney sweepers were forced to endure. Despite all of the harsh experiences, the children’s’ innocence is evident as they remain hopeful and optimistic in the unfair society. The poem explores the contrast of the unruly child labor paired with childhood innocence that makes up the chimney sweeper’s dark reality.…

Personal Essay Thinking back, the most ambiguous and yet completely divergent experience I had was when I set my foot on American soil. It wasn’t just some typical day for me, it was the day full of joy and excitement. It was the day when I was united with my family without having to fear that they’ll have to go soon. It was the day when I saw snow for the first time; sparkling from the light of the star that is closest to us. It was the day I was exposed to a completely different…

lives are defined by experiences, with each one serving as a manifestation of our interests and circumstances. One cannot truly live without intellectual stimulation. Such stimulation can be derived from reading, listening, discussing and simply exercising one’s imagination. I’ve always believed that in order to truly discover yourself, you should fill your life with intellectual experiences. Looking back on these years, I feel that my most important intellectual experience was one which I only…

between these two poems is that each poem belong to two different poetry of Blake’s collection. Two biggest collection of poetry from William Blake are the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. The Songs of Innocence are poetries that have happy poems like the poem “The Lamb.” The Songs of Experience are poetries that have poems that are dark and sad like the poem “The Tyger.” The purpose of the essay is to compare and contrast “The Lamb” and “The Tyger.” The difference between these…

hours playing them. His mom was worried and resolved to have him put into a camp for kids with this addiction. It was neat to realize the reality of an addiction that media can be through a real life experience. It is hard to put down an experiment and say it’s not true because it was a live experience. Thus causing me not want anything close to an addiction like that or to even touch video…

Zebra Experience to Change Summative Essay As said by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” This theme is presented many times throughout the story, “Zebra,” by Chaim Potok. The main character Adam, better known as Zebra, goes through several experiences that lead to his outlook on life changing. Overall his experiences render him to become a better person. One of the main experiences that changed Zebra was meeting…

Wondrous but Fearful Tyger William Blake’s “The Tyger” in Songs of Experience, written in 1794, describes the Tyger as “fearful” while appreciating its beauty. During this time, Blake was one of the first people to see a tiger; this inspired him to write “The Tyger” and paint the creature as a majestic but fierce being. Although the origins of the Tyger are questioned, the creator is referred to as “he” implying a male divine creator. While examining who or what created the Tyger, in addition…

Sadly, I have had some experiences with prejudice growing up. Some of the times were subtle where the other times were they weren’t so subtle. Prejudice is the holding of preconceived ideas about an individual or group. I first experienced this when I was 7. I was at the mall and there was a magician demonstrating his skills. It was set up where you can crowd around him and watch from different angles. I was the only African-American girl there but that didn’t bother me because mostly I was…

“The Lamb” and “The Tyger” are two of William Blake’s works which come from two of Blake’s most famous collections of poetry: Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. Both poems speak about the creation of different beasts at the hand of a single creator. In these two poems William Black makes the reader question who creates good and bad. How can god make something so nice and delicate and on the other hand something so fearful at the same time, and why did the creator create two opposite…