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WILLIAM BLAKE

Songs of Innocence

Songs of Experience

• SONGS OF INNOCENCE and SONGS OF

EXPERIENCE can be seen as two

complimentary collections.

• They represent Blake’s dual vision of life , his

view of the interdependence of good and evil,

desire and frustration.

• These two states coexist in the human being

and are an essential part of his vital energy.

• Their meaning depends on whether it is read

innocently or with the eyes of experience.

• SONGS OF EXPERIENCE : In this poem we see

what this FALL consists of.

• Man cannot always be a child and has to grow

and inevitably go through the stage of

experience.

• It portrays the world of adult life and it

constructs a parallel universe where people

are selfish and incapable of spontaineity.

BLAKE’S SYMBOLISM

• Children, flowers and seasons symbolise innocence.
• Urban, industrial landascapes and machines represent experience (adulthood), oppression and rationalism.
• His most famous dual symbols that reflect his view of the French Revolution are the LAMB and the TIGER.
• The lamb is a symbol of weakness and innocence, and it refers to the God of love and the forgiveness of the New Testament.
• lamb=child=source of creation

• Blake did not express nostalgia of the past, trying to overcome the violent consequence of the Revolution.
• He simly described the contradictory forces of beuty and horror. The contradiction itself was the source of the its vital energy.
• The TRUE POET for Blake is the one who possesses the power of imagination. He is a visionary who can see what remians hidden from ordinary mortals.
• Personal experience is more important than subjective truth.