William Blake finds many ways to lead the reader of his poems to an understanding of what he, as an artist, is trying to convey through his words. Blake frequently uses distinguished words and images to establish vibrant pictures in the mind of the reader, In Blake's Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience he also uses unique engravings to depict the transformation of the Western world in an era of intense social change, where people began to challenge political powers, and Christian theology. Songs of Innocence and Experience are contradictory to each other. Innocence as a whole depicts a bright and pastoral setting, a world free from sin, guilt, and the harms of evil, much like the times of youth. Where as, Experience emphasizes on a world of cruelty, jealousness, and possessiveness; best represented by adulthood.

The Chimney Sweeper in Songs of Innocence tells the story of a young boy, by the name of Tom Dacre, who worked as a chimneysweeper order to help support his family after his mother had died. This poem is mirrored in Songs of Experience, yet the second version tells of a boy that learns a much more pertinent lesson. Blake makes a comparison between the ch

As the reader moves through the Songs of Innocence the realization is recognized that a youth without worries cannot last a lifetime and Blake immediately moves into Songs of Experience. The Tyger begins by telling of this beautiful creature that has the speaker in awe. The primary question asked by the speaker throughout The Tyger, "What immortal hand or eye/ Could frame thy fearful symmetry? (Blake 3-4)" resembles the same question asked in The Lamb. Yet this question is asked in a different context, the speaker is not a child and knows to fear the tyger. "Did he who made the Lamb make thee? (Blake 20)." Is it possible for each of these creatures in Blake's poems to be created by the same being? One being so tame and docile and the other representing all that is feared and respected in nature. The lamb is written in the frame of mind that a Romantic would have, while the tyger sets a divergent Hadean image to make the former more holy than when compared to such a dreadful b!

ck coffins suggesting that with youth should come freedom, not imprisonment. Many other engravings in the Songs of Innocence have some sort of vines or trees in them. The vines in this image start at the bottom of the green plain and reach to the top of the engraving connecting the title symbolizing Tom Dacre reaching his dream of having the innocence of the childhood, not yet spoiled by unnecessary worry that accompanies adulthood.

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imneys being swept by the children and "...coffins of black (Blake 12)", and when the children "...wash in a river and shine in the Sun (Blake 16)" they resemble angels frolicking in the clouds. The soot is represented by the social belief that these children are to dirty an

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