Songs of Innocence was published in 1789. ... Blake really explores the contradicting stakes of innocence and experience. The Lamb from Songs of Innocence and The Tiger from Songs of Experience demonstrate these contradictions excellently, effectively and very well. Songs of Innocence is a collection of poems that see the natural world without fear. ... This makes it very song like. ...

• Word Count: 672
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Some of Blake's most well-known poems include; "The Lamb", "The Tyger", "London", "The Chimney Sweeper- Songs of Experience" and "The chimney Sweeper- Songs of Innocence", which I will explain the social message about, which Blake is trying to let out. The poem "The Lamb" tells us about Blake's religious convictions in the way that he believes God is the Lamb which symbolises innocence. "The Lamb" contrasts with the poem "The Tyger" where the Lamb represents innocence, harmless, playful and vulnerable, whereas the Tiger represents experience, fierce, aggressive and a hunter. ... T...

• Word Count: 415
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

In his best works, "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience," Blake uses his poetic talent to address the political and relgious ideas of his age. The poems "The Lamb" and "The Tyger," published in Songs of Innocence and of Experience, uses the symbolism of two different animals to explain how all things, good and evil, come from God. ...

• Word Count: 582
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

 "The Chimney Sweeper," from Robert Blake's Songs of Innocence, is a poem typical of the themes present in the Songs of Innocence and Experience. ... This feeling of a merry, fake world, and the unforgiving and cold real world is reinforced by imperfect rhyme (something that as Abrams points out is commonly used in children's poems, which Blake's songs of innocence are caricatures of). (274) In the dream, the rhyme is perfect, and the words are happy, mouth filling words, which seem to bounce in their very saying. ...

• Word Count: 706
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In the poem, "The Ecchoing Green" from Blake's Songs of Innocence, there is an overall happy tone throughout the poem. ... This pattern flows along so well, it can almost be considered a happy song. ...

• Word Count: 635
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The poem about the lamb was one of innocence and the good side of spirituality that most mothers probably recited to their children back then to sound like a song or nursery rhyme to soothe the child as they tried to fall asleep. ... Not wanting to lose sight of the innocence of the world while in reality still having to deal with life struggles. ...

• Word Count: 646
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School