1. "I Have Sought for a Joy without pain,/ For a Solid Without
The Songs of Innocence and Experience written in 1789, demonstrates Blake's early experimentation with differing perceptions. ... The Clod which has been "Trodden" on can be seen to represent innocence. ... As David Fuller comments, The Songs " ...show oppositions that help progression...Both contain negative qualities which the positives of each help us to transcend." ... The reader catches a glimpse of the "social uses of pity" (Moskal, 1994: 28) in the poem "The Human Abstract" in The Songs, "Pity ...
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- Grade Level: High School