Innocence And Experience In William Blake's 'The Land Of Dreams'

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The Songs of Innocence poems first appeared in Blake’s 1784 novel, An Island in the Moon. In 1788, Blake began to compile in earnest, the collection of Songs of Innocence. And by 1789, this original volume of plates was complete. These poems are the products of the human mind in a state of innocence, imagination, and joy; natural euphoric feelings uninhibited or tainted by the outside world. Following the completion of the Songs of Innocence plates, Blake wrote The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and it is through this dilemma of good and evil and the suffering that he witnesses on the streets of London, that he begins composing Songs of Experience. This second volume serves as a response to Songs of

William Blake was deeply aware of the great political and social issues during his time focusing his writing on the injustices going on in the world around him. He juxtaposed the state of human existence through his works Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794), showing differentiating sides of humanity. The contrast between Songs of

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What does it mean to be human? William Blake, an 18th century English poet, artist, and philosopher asked these questions, often masqueraded under a wall of color, and rhyme. Through seemingly childish, almost nursery-esq poems, Blake teases us to think about who we are, and ask ourselves things that challenge who we are as a species. Often his poems were sister pairs that mirrored each other in theme and appearance. For example, his poem “The Lamb” a poem about innocence and divine creation, is mirrored by “The Tyger,” a look at experience, and a subtle inquiry at why the divine creator of the lamb, would create such an evil as a tiger. The same can be said about two of his other poems, “The Chimney Sweeper” and “Infant Sorrow,” whose themes deal with again, innocence and experience, in a Taoism manner of thinking. Blake uses archetypes of innocence and experience in “The Lamb, “The Tyger,” The Chimney Sweeper,” and “Infant Sorrow.”

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Compare and Contrast the ways in which Heaney and Blake write about innocence and experience in their poetry

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Blake a romantic poet who doesn't write romance poems but poems of his love of nature. In his poems though it's not only about the love of nature ,but also having innocence and experience put inside the poems. So far we have read 4 poems of Blake's two are poems of experience and two of innocence, the two experience poems are the Tyger and the Chimney Sweeper and the two innocence poems are the Lamb and Infant Sorrow. The poem that is my favorite out of these is the chimney sweeper which is an experience poem. It has obviously experience, joy and sorrow hidden away in the poem which makes it interesting to read.

Furthermore, Blake juxtaposes this to Tom’s dreams, where “down a green plain leaping, laughing they run” (14), where the connotations of the colour “green” conveys a sense of happiness and joy that is stereotypically associated with the connotations of childhood. However, the children eventually “rose in the dark” (21), where the noun “dark” indicates their gloomy reality. Therefore, Blake presents irony in that fact the magic of childhood as been destroyed and corrupted, ultimately highlighting the injustice that these children did not get to lead the lives that children should. In a like manner, Owen similarly employs juxtaposition to convey iron through the title of his poem itself, “Anthem for Doomed Youth”. There is a contrast between

The style of Songs of Innocence and Experience is simply direct, but the rhythms and language are often deeply complex. Many of the poems are narratives, but some like, “The Sick Rose” use symbolism and abstract concepts to deliver a message. Blake often uses Biblical symbolism and language in his writing. He seems to enjoy applying simple, nursery rhyme meter to his unorthodox conceptions. This combination of familiarity with the unfamiliar is what keeps Blake’s work perpetually interesting (Erdman, David V. Complete Poetry and Prose. New York, 1982.

Some of William Blake’s poetry is categorized into collections called Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. Blake explores almost opposite opinions about creation in his poems “The Lamb” and “The Tiger.” While the overarching concept is the same in both, he uses different subjects to portray different sides of creation; however, in the Innocence and Experience versions of “The Chimney Sweeper,” Blake uses some of the same words, rhyme schemes, and characters to talk about a single subject in opposite tones.