Songs of Innocence and of Experience

The difference 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…

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…

outrage against children during the Industrial Revolution. Blake was born on 1757 in London. He is a prophet, poet, painter, and engraver. Blake have radical political views and revolutionary standards (Raine, 7-13). He published Songs of Innocence in 1789 and Songs of Experience in 1794 both of these publication contain a poem called “The Chimney Sweeper.”…

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.…

Compare the way Blake and Heaney present strong attitudes towards society. William Blake and Seamus Heaney were both visionaries and social critics, who presented their strong attitudes towards society through writing critical poems in protest against the corruptions of society. Blake’s poems were based around the transition of idealised agrarian lifestyle changing to an urbanised society, written in the 1700’s. Heaney’s poems were written much later on during the 19th century, to present his…

In the first version of “The Chimney Sweeper” from the Songs of Innocence, the boy is having to become a chimney sweeper because it is a necessity. The child says, “When my mother died I was very young, and my father sold me” (1459). During this time, child labor was very popular, and his father sold him because they were in poverty. The second version of “The Chimney Sweeper” the child was more than likely forced to do the job because his parents made him. The child’s parent is very alive…

Love can always turn sour when misunderstandings happen and jealously enters the heart. The poem, My Pretty ROSE TREE, in The Longman Anthology of British Literature, was originally published in Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience by William Blake. My Pretty ROSE TREE, under the section of ‘Experience’, tells a simple yet heartful story about a love gone wrong. Blake uses tone, rhyme, and figurative word choice to paint a picture with nature imagery to highlight the emotions and themes of…

“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…

William Blake’s techniques used in the poems, “The Lamb” and “The Tiger,” in Songs of Innocence and Experience help him develop his theme of “humanity becomes aware of evil as it sees nature being corrupted.” The lamb represents the innocence, and the tiger represents evil and corruption. The theme is conveyed through Blake’s diction. The author’s diction in “The Lamb” heightens the theme the poem portrays. In “The Lamb,” the speaker is asking the lamb who gave it its “tender voice” and…

William Blake “The Tyger” is a poem written by William Blake and published with a collection of poems in a work titled “The Songs of Experience” in 1794. William Blake was born in London in 1757 to James Blake a hosier (Morsberger,). Blake expressed a desire at the age of 10 to study art, which his father allowed, paying for his tuition and for casts to study at home (Morsberger,). At the age of 14, Blake was apprenticed to an engraver, learning a trade that would be valuable to him in…