Songs of Innocence, and Songs of Experience

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“Songs of Innocence and of Experience is an collection of poems by William Blake. It appeared in two phases. A few first copies were printed and illuminated by William Blake himself in 1789; five years later he bound these poems with a set of new poems in a volume titled Songs of Innocence and of Experience Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul. William Blake was also a painter before the songs of innocence and experience and made paintings such as Oberon, Titania, and Puck dancing with fairies. “”Innocence”« and „„Experience““ are definitions of consciousness that rethink Milton’s existential-mythic states of „„Paradise““ and „„Fall““. Often, interpretations of this collection centre around a mythical dualism, where „„Innocence““ represents the „„unfallen world““ and „„Experience““ represents the „„fallen world““. Blake categorizes our modes of perception that tend to coordinate with a chronology that would become standard in Romanticism: childhood is a state of protected innocence rather than original sin, but not immune to the fallen world and its institutions. This world sometimes impinges on childhood itself, and in any event becomes known through „„experience““, a state of being marked by the loss of childhood vitality, by fear and inhibition, by social and political corruption, and by the manifold oppression of Church, State, and the ruling classes. The volume’s „„Contrary States““ are sometimes signalled by patently repeated or contrasted titles: in Innocence, Infant Joy, in Experience, Infant Sorrow; in Innocence, The Lamb, in Experience, The Fly and The Tyger. The stark simplicity of poems such as The Chimney Sweeper and The Little Black Boy display Blake’s acute sensibility to the realities of poverty and exploitation that accompanied the „„Dark Satanic Mills““ of the Industrial Revolution.»

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The Poems

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“William Blake an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. His prophetic poetry has been said to form «„what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language“». His visual artistry has led one contemporary art critic to proclaim him «„far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced“». Although he lived in London his entire life except for three years spent in Felpham he produced a diverse and symbolically rich corpus, which embraced the imagination as «„the body of God“», or «„Human existence itself“». Famous poems of the author William Blake: «„A Poison Tree“», «„The Tyger Tyger! Tyger!“», «„Of Innocence“», «„The Angel“», «„A Divine Image“», «„Love’s Secret“», «„A Cradle Song“», «„A Dream“», «„London“», «„A Little Girl Lost“», «„A War Song To Englishmen“», «„A Little Boy Lost“», «„A Song“».”

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Songs of Innocence, and Songs of Experience

The Poems