William Blake
William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience William Blake finds many ways to lead the reader of his poems to an understanding of what he, as an artist, is trying to convey through his words. Blake frequently uses distinguished words and images to establish vibrant pictures in the mind of the reader, In Blake's Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience he also uses unique engravings to depict the transformation of the Western world in an era of intense social change, where people began to challenge political powers, and Christian theology. Songs of Innocence and Experience are contradictory to each other. Innocence as a whole depicts a bright and pastoral setting, a world free from sin, guilt, and the harms of evil, much like the times of youth. Where as, Experience emphasizes on a world of cruelty, jealousness, and possessiveness; best represented by adulthood. The Chimney Sweeper in Songs of Innocence tells the story of a young boy, by the name of Tom Dacre, who worked as a chimneysweeper order to help support his family after his mother had died. This poem is mirrored in Songs of Experience, yet the second version tells of a boy that learns a much more pertinent lesson. Blake makes a comparison between the ch
coffins of black (Blake 12)", and when the children ". As the vines reach beyond the mountains they grow into chaos, warning that complications come with age. Many of Blake's topics of interest came about from everyday interactions and problems which raised the questions of who, what and why. imneys being swept by the children and ". The vines in this engraving that begin next to him originate simply yet as they grow to match the mountaintops in the distance they begin to complicate suggesting a journey, as though one of a mountain climber, into adulthood. Blake comforts the reader at the end of this poem by stating, "Little Lamb God bless thee (Blake 20)", just as in the engraving the little boy standing among the flock of lambs seems to be in a perfect peace knowing that he is also blessed much like the speaker of this poem. The angel at the bottom of the engraving is releasing boys from bla!ck coffins suggesting that with youth should come freedom, not imprisonment. " Is it possible for each of these creatures in Blake's poems to be created by the same being? One being so tame and docile and the other representing all that is feared and respected in nature. The child speaker repeatedly asks, ".
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