world of innocence: unfallen world/ unified self/ integration with nature/ time in harmony with rhythm of human existence.

world of experience: fallen world/ fragmented divided self/ alienation from nature/ time as destructive, in opposition of human desire (Feldman).

This can be seen in "The Lamb," and "The Chimney Sweeper;" from Songs of Innocence and in Songs of Experience "The Tyger," and "The Chimney Sweeper,".

Blake was little known as a poet during his lifetime. His reputation became established late in the 19th century. Blake's first book

Songs of Innocence and of Experience illustrate two imaginative realms: the state of innocence and the state of experience. They represent two different ways of seeing, and this is seen is Northrop Fry's distinction between the two in paragraph one. In the song "The Lamb," the child knows the lamb is innocent and pure. The speaker says, "he is meek & he is mild" (line 15), this represents the unfallen world. Time in harmony with rhythm of human existence is represented in "The Chimney Sweeper,". The child knows of death but also of living after death and having hope. The speaker speaks of his mother dying, this is the death part, and then has a vision of an Angel taking chimney sweepers to heaven. The fallen world is represented in Songs of Experience in the song "The Tyger". The speaker knows that everything is not perfect including the tyger although he and the lamb were created by the same person, some sense of understanding is established. Time as destructive in opposition of human desire is represented by "The Chimney Sweeper". The speaker in the poem is older then in the one in Songs of Innocence. The speaker knows of death because both of his parents are already dead probably and he is just trying to make it in society by being a chimney sweeper.

Mack, Maynard, et al. The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces. 2nd ed. Vol. 2. NY: W. W. Norton and Company, 1995.

Even the introduction song to the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience is a good example of not only Blake's views of the role of Innocence and Experience in regeneration, but also the complexity of the seemingly simple songs (Magill, et al 208). Some symbols in the poems are for instance the lamb in the Song of Innocence. The lamb is a symbol of Christ and his pureness and innocence. The poem, "The Tyger," has a few symbols also one of which is the lamb again and the tyger itself. In the poem Blake says, "did he who made the lamb make thee"(line 20)? This represents the purity of the lamb and the beast in the tyger and Blake is wondering how something so vicious could be created by God. The poem "The Lamb," and the poem, "The Tyger" depict the nature of perception in those states and the contradictions which abide in each state (Magill, et al 209). Other symbols in his poetry

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