Songs of Innocence and Experie
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 soul - innocence and experience. The world of innocence is a child's world, and it is preserved in the minds of full-grown children by pr
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Approximate Pages = 10 (250 words per page double spaced)
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