In "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience", Blake explored unconventional ideas of the nature of God and religion and tried to unite, or balance, his concept of innocence and experience as two different states of life and the human soul. Both "The Lamb" (Songs of Innocence) and its contrary "The Tyger" ("Songs of Experience") invite the reader to consider God and creation in different ways. ... The reference to the stars or heavens may symbolise the rigid "laws" imposed on man and poet in the preceding age of reason and restriction, whilst their weeping shows the breakdown of these ba...

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Both viewed children as the embodiment of innocence and purity, something to be protected and nurtured. ... The exact origins of Romanticism are still in debate today, but it is generally agreed upon that it came about as a challenge to the Age of Enlightenment (1660s-1780s). ... " (Harvey) The movement celebrated the power of the individual, the imagination, and spontaneity, rather than the authority of reasoning and control during the Age of Reason. ...

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His poetry encountered great critical interest for its "employment of satire and verbal digression, its presentation of the individual versus society, and its treatment of guilt and innocence" (Safier, 528). Byron considered Alexander Pope--an important satirist in the Age of Reason--as a model for him and his writing, thus influencing his own satirical style. ... At the age of 21, Byron was given a seat at the House of Lords and went to sessions for that year (Slovey and Haerens 67). ...

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