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 chi

man's sins. The identification of Jesus as Lamb is

and to leap and dance along all the others." (Ferber, Pg 5)

world, and yet superior to it in their blessed simplicity.

'Clear' suggests 'innocent' and to stain clear water is

ewes and lambs and brings peace to the flock.

Rises from the slumberous mass.

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