Songs Of Innocence And Experience: An Analysis
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William Blake wrote Songs of Innocence and Experience, concerned
with the differences between how children and adults see and understand the
world. Blake had a strong belief that man had potential to attain both
wisdom and joy. He truly admired the innocence of children, which is
reflected in mu ....
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.... we could
achieve the goal of self-awareness... the poems are presented from the
views of the world as filtered through the eyes and mind of a child. It can
also be inferred that evil can bring forth the loss of innocence. Therefore,
one existing similarity is that they both concern the loss of innocence.
Of his most well known poems are “The Lamb” from Songs of Innocence,
and “The Tyger”, from Songs of Experience. Both poems contain many
similarities according to their themes. ....
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