T.S. Eliot once said of Blake's writings, "The Songs of
             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 introduced to the English
             literary world his two most famous books of poetry: the
             Songs of Innocence and the Songs of Experience. In his own
             day, he was widely believed to be "quite mad," though those
             who knew him best thought otherwise. Today, few of us take
             Blake's madness seriously, either because we don't believe
             in it or because it no longer matters. Blake's fundamental
             concepts speak mainly about the human condition and emotion;
             and within the realms of this paper, I would like to
             persuade my readers that William Blake uses simple language
             and metaphors to show the two contrary states of the human
             The world of innocence is a child's world, and it is
             preserved in the minds of full-grown children by projecting
             the memory or desire for parental protection on to a higher
             realm. The lambs with their "innocent calls", the orphans
             and children with their "innocent faces", are simple and
             pure in that they have done no harm; but they are also
             innocent in that nothing challenges their faith. They are
             naive and vulnerable to the conspiracy of the experienced
             world, and yet superior to it in their blessed simplicity.
             The world of experience is a different world then the one of
             innocence. Northrop Frye once said of the experience world;
             "The world of experience is the world that adults live in
             while they are awake. It is a very big world, and a lot of
             it seems to be dead, but still it makes it...