To illustrate, “Lamb”, “child”, and “God” are the three main characters that appear in these works. In 1789, Blake first printed Songs of Innocence including nineteen poems as a romanticism poet, he focuses on piety, love and worship of God. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, which costs Blake five years to adjust attitude and develop ideas, reveals his progress of maturation. Even though the vocabulary that Blake uses here is not complex, he puts plenty of components in his green image, such as birds, kids, old men, and the simile between family and birds’ nest, so that readers could connect to their beautiful memories of the past days as well.įrom “Innocence” to “Experience”, child grows up and transforms the unconscious mind to new awareness. For instance, in THE ECHOLING GREEN, the skylark and thrush’s “louder” singing proclaims that everything comes to life again with the advent of the spring kids are playing in the green woods and echoes of their voice indicate an absolutely energetic and joyful situation the old men with “white hair” watching them are affected by the lovely sight, recalling their own carefree childhood with smiles (Blake, 3). Typically, Blake expresses romantic themes in the poems of SONGS OF INNOCENCE, creating such a lively and cheerful environment. With more than twenty years experience in printing and painting, Blake’s accomplishment towards fine arts has a great influence on his poems, which helps to depict vivid pictures by the wording and then makes readers feel as if they were actually there. William Blake is well known not only as a poet, but also as a print-maker and a painter. In William Blake’s collection of poems Songs of Innocence and of Experience, he displays two distinct stages of human emotion, which is joy and sorrow, triggering the serious thinking about the religious idealism and human existence. While time goes by, child grows up and becomes conscious of the real world. Innocence and Experience - Ideal or RealityĪs a rule, people are used to describing a simple person as a child, since childhood is considered as the most innocent age in human entire lifetime.
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