More Experience

directly and indirectly. There are many issues that are displayed throughout his work, in William Blake’s book Songs of Innocence and Experience reflecting on the stages of childhood and the adult life and how people’s perspective change over their life span. Songs of Innocence is the child-like and more playful naive way of seeing the world, which contrast to Songs of Experience being harsh and bold statements on the real world. Songs of Innocence exaggerate the hopes and fears that center…

More than thirty years would pass after his death before William Blake, an under- acknowledged during his time, musical poet and artist, starting receiving an admiring consideration for his work. The Enlightenment period delivered new philosophies and beliefs that rivaled the old, a thorough disturbance of government dynamics, and figures who challenged society members to think in ways that had not before. Blake, like many others of the time, advocated for transpositions in many regards. Often…

between the two children? In the poem of “Experience” the boy is yelling “weep” and while doing so he is asked by someone as to where his parents are and to their surprise they are at the church praying. On the other hand in the poem “Innocence” the boy is completely ignored and we are told by the narrator that his mother had died and his father sold him off to work. Here we see how melancholy the tone is, though later in both poems we will see a shift to more positive tones. In the poem…

Boucher. She was illiterate, but Blake taught her how to read, write, and also helped her to experience visions (William Blake Biography). In 1787, one of the most shocking events in William Blake’s life occurred. His younger brother Robert died from illness. After his death, Blake continued to experience visions of his brother.…

The near death experience was first defined to be a spur of consciousness leading to an altered-reality experience on random individuals who reach the state of clinical death by a lack of oxygen to the brain that implies complete unconsciousness on those individuals (Khanna & Greyson, 2014, p. 1605). Near death experience recounts highlight similarities among those who experience them. Characteristics such as out of body experiences, diving into darkness to then transport into a light-filled…

learning experience to understand that as a nurse it is difficult to prepare for a day because it is a career of unexpected events. I was extremely nervous for the unknown situation and outcome that I was going to be faced with. The simulation started the moment I was doing research for the case study and evaluating key points that could lead me to the patient’s illness. I made a plan with my partner and felt the necessity to follow up despite of the situation. The closest real life experience…

the poems in Songs of Experience are about bad experiences rather than good ones. The purpose of the poems in Songs of Innocence and Experience were to show the two opposing states of the human soul. These being that a child with no experiences are innocent and happy, but when they grow and gain new experiences this innocence is ripped away from them. Blake used these poems to prove something he believed in. He believed that true innocence is not possible without experience. William Blake…

Digital Nation did a wonderful job presenting information about how the world is changing and becoming more digitalized. Though it may be a good video, we need to know if its content is valid. Using media literacy, we will understand where the information is coming from and whether or not it should be trusted. In order to do this, we need to ask questions about the different things we are viewing. After doing this, we can see that this video is literate in some cases because it has good…

(Blake pp. 1-2). Unfortunately, the little boy is oblivious and unaware of the kind of injustices posed to him because of his innocence due to the young age. The Songs of Experience seems to echo the ordeal of the chimney sweeper…

also brings about a certain amount of expectation. We assume that because it happened a specific way last time it will happen that way again. And when it is different, we might experience disappointment or confusion. Of course, things can happen almost exactly like they did last time, but each year or each time you experience something, be it for the first time or the 10th time, it is different. Allowing…