Songs of Innocence and of Experience

William Blake's twinned cycles showing the two contrary states of the human soul.

At a glance From the tender lamb to the burning tiger, deceptively simple poems that open onto vast… A child's song and a burning tiger; a gentle lamb and a chimney sweep's grief. William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience sets childlike simplicity against… What it's about Blake presents his poems as showing, in his own words, the two contrary…

Blake presents his poems as showing, in his own words, the two contrary states of the human soul. The Songs of Innocence speak in the clear, tender voice of childhood, of lambs and blossoms, of divine care and joy.