Songs of Innocence and of Experience

This collection was called the Songs of Experience. This song is coming from the perspective of an older child or youth, but not someone who has become a man (Bloom pg. 109). The experience is supposed to be about a young boy who is troubled by the perception of evil that he received from a playmate (Bloom pg.109). Through these songs, Blake was seen more mature in his illustrations of them than in the actual written part of them. Most of his songs were mature in the conception of them or…

connection to the work of William Blake. Blake’s works, “Songs of Innocence” and “Songs of Experience” strongly correlate with the changing perception that comes with age and knowledge of the female reality. “Washing Day” also correlates to the infamous piece, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft, with the encouragement to want more. The Romantic literary pieces, “Washing Day”, “Songs of Innocence”, “Songs of Experience”, and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman are…

William Blake uses archetypes in the poem The Lamb to express the word innocence. In the poem, Blake emphasizes that the story belongs to the Song of Innocence. The writer also makes it clear that lambs are cute and harmless animals. The message of the text is that the lamb doesn’t choose to be born and be innocent but that’s the way the world sees them as. Blake also makes you question what the…

“Universal Man” falling from the divine unity that fuses inclusively man, nature and god together into the “Division” and “Selfhood” of detached individuals (Norton, 78). After the fall the world undergoes three lower phases: Beulah of pastoral innocence and serenity, Generation of realistic human ordeal and contradiction, and the lowest, hell-like Ulro of “bleak rationality, tyranny, static negation, and isolated Selfhood” (Norton, 79). The transition of human soul from…

romantic literature. The Romantic Movement in England was centered on imagination, and regaining the sense of childhood innocence that we lose once we are subjected to the harsh realities of the world. Though there are many examples of the child in different aspects of romantic literature, they are not all depicted in the same way. Some authors see the child as a symbol of innocence and hope, while others see childbirth and parenting as a difficult and unrewarding struggle. The child, during…

Failure of Fathers in Blake’s Songs of Innocence Because Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience have been read in tandem since they were first published together in 1794, it can be easy to overlook that Songs of Innocence was once a work that stood on its own. However, looking at Songs of Innocence as an individual work allows the reader to step back from its role as a comparison to Songs of Experience. This separation makes the inherent dark themes in Songs of Innocence more difficult to…

way children think. As a kid Jesus was vulnerable and guileless, similar to the way children are. William Blake is comparing Jesus as a child, to the common children in the current society. Those children are similar to the lamb in the aspect of innocence, and happiness. Kids mean well, but as they age they become more susceptible to societal woes. The Tiger is implying that society is a beautiful beast, and the creator made a being that is voluptuous, yet incredibly beautiful. The Tyger’s…

suffering that individuals or society may be facing. “The Chimney Sweeper” has two different parts that go with the “Songs of Innocence” and “Songs of Experience”. The innocence version reveals the naïve perspectives of a child were as the experience version…

William Blake wrote many different poems, two big books filled with them, one book being called Songs of Innocence and the other being called Songs of Experience. Within these two books, four were brought up to the attention of the class, The Lamb, The Tyger, The Chimney Sweeper, and Infant Sorrow. These four poems had different messages but also different archetypes or comparisons. Each one, William Blake made sure to point out what he was really trying to get the reader to notice as he wrote…

a journey to become the Catcher In the Rye and preserve children's’ innocence. He goes through a numerous amount of different trials that end in failure; which leads to him realizing that innocence is not something that can be obtained forever. Body Paragraph 1 Holden develops a dream job that entails of him trying to preserve children’s innocence. His idea for his job came about after experiencing loosing his own innocence following a tragic event Salinger's purpose for including Holden’s…