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    Songs Of Experience Tone

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    In the two poems "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience," there are multiple similarities and differences regarding their tones. The poet uses diction to demonstrate these several similarities and differences that are being used for their tones. In "Songs of Innocence," he uses dark (sad, depressing, etc.) and light (happy) emotion to describe their tones. Regarding the use of the dark tones for the poems, the poet uses the first line in "Songs of Innocence." The first line goes as following;

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    Song of Innocence and the Song of Experience, both deal with the sense of the world, but talk about the world in a different sense. They both use the concept of sublime to talk about the sense of God and what humanity gives out. The Song of Innocence gives the positive effect humanity when corruption is still present. The Lamb talks about a creation that the Lord made. The poem gives a description on how the Lord gives life to beautiful and great things. Showing the beauty in life, even though

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    In “Songs of Experience” Blake immediately creates imagery by using the image of the speaker talking a child who is covered in soot and crying in the snow. There is a contrast of misery being understood using the color black and a sense of innocence using white. The speaker demands that the child tells him where his parents are and he expresses how they are in the church. Similar to Songs of Innocence, in line 8 the metaphor “And taught me to sing the notes of woe.” shows this child was also forced

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    Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, the Songs, by William Blake, has many underlying themes, one of which is duality. Duality is the opposing of two sides of the same whole. In this case, the two sides are innocence and experience. Innocence does not necessarily mean ignorance. In the Songs, the first half is Songs of Innocence and these poems seem to be very uplifting. In each poem the subject or narrator is happy because they are childlike and experiencing everything for the first time

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    Comparing The Tyger And Songs Of Experience

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    Catherine Boucher. They created a book of all Blake’s poems called Songs on Innocence, which was not very popular while he was alive. On the other hand Blake’s other book of poems, Songs of Experience, were much more popular. These two collections are so magnificent because it is two different forms of writing successfully written by one man. Two major poems written by William Blake were “The Tyger” and “The Lamb”. The Lamb is from Songs of

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    In the poems “Songs of Innocence” and the poem “Songs of Experience” they both has similarities and differences in the poems. The tone of both poems are different one has a light tone and the other one has a dark tone, but also both of the poems are very sad poems because they both show how the little boys struggled to do the work they needed to do. The poems has a lot of similarities and differences like the tones used and the different figurative language used in each poem. In the first poem “The

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    Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. Blake’s examination of the duality of a single subject’s nature lends itself perfectly to a close reading such as this. When looking at the different options available to me in Blake’s volumes, “Holy Thursday” (both the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience versions) demonstrated this duality clearly. The subject in “Holy Thursday” stays the same, however, the nature of the subject is drastically different in each poem. In both Songs of Innocence

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    Sweeper” Songs of Innocence & Experience analysis with, William Blake In 1794 William Blake’s work was known and published as a collection of poems that were put together as one book called Songs of innocence & Songs of Experience. In the collection Blake titles a poem, “The Chimney Sweeper”, and this one is viewed in two ways: Innocence and experience. In the book of innocence Blake shows how poor innocent children are being abused and mistreated during this time era. In Songs of innocence

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    William Blake was an English poet and printmaker in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, specially renowned for his poems published in a series titled Songs of Innocence (1889) and Songs of Experience (1894) ("William Blake.”). Although in his lifetime he was considered mad by British society and his works were neglected, today, Blake is regarded as one of the original Romantic poets (G.E Bentley). Furthermore, his works reflect the transition between the Augustan period and the Romantic one;

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    Rossetti Manuscripts and Innocence and the Songs of Experience Innocence and the Songs of Experience, and the poems from the Rossetti manuscripts, are the poems of a man with a profound interest in human emotions, and a profound knowledge of them." (Grant, Pg 507) These two famous books of poetry written by William Blake, not only show men's emotions and feelings, but explain within themselves, the child's innocence, and man's experience. A little over two centuries ago, William Blake

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