William Blake’s introductions for Songs of Innocence and Experience put side by side the innocent world of childhood and the corrupted world of adulthood. Since Blake lived in London an experienced the social and political changes of his era, his writing was influence by these changes, especially the Industrial Revolution. Thus, these poems problematize the fact that Blake wants to go back on time where humanity was innocence and civilized. The introduction for song of innocence shows his religion background and the advantages of lacking awareness of the world’s corruption. For instance, the Lamb is a clear symbol used for Christians as the representation of Jesus Christ. Hence, Blake remarks his faith that Jesus is the one who can take people back to their real nature, which is the state of “innocence”; since Christians believe that children are the example of the proper behavior in order to achieve heaven. Hence, all this is destroyed when they get into adulthood, which is the state were humans get conscious of all the issues of this fallen world. Since people get knowledgeable and everything becomes known through experiences, humans misplace contact with nature, in other words, they lose contact with God. Though Blake was a dissenter this idea of losing innocence and get consciousness of the reality can be seeing process of losing contact with nature. For instance, in the poem “Introduction of Experience” he refers to the “Bard” who is a reference Druid from the Celtic religion. He reinforces the idea of the necessity to get in contact to nature. Consequently, humans beings need to go back on time in order to become innocence and get in contact to their real nature
William Blake’s introductions for Songs of Innocence and Experience put side by side the innocent world of childhood and the corrupted world of adulthood. Since Blake lived in London an experienced the social and political changes of his era, his writing was influence by these changes, especially the Industrial Revolution. Thus, these poems problematize the fact that Blake wants to go back on time where humanity was innocence and civilized. The introduction for song of innocence shows his religion background and the advantages of lacking awareness of the world’s corruption. For instance, the Lamb is a clear symbol used for Christians as the representation of Jesus Christ. Hence, Blake remarks his faith that Jesus is the one who can take people back to their real nature, which is the state of “innocence”; since Christians believe that children are the example of the proper behavior in order to achieve heaven. Hence, all this is destroyed when they get into adulthood, which is the state were humans get conscious of all the issues of this fallen world. Since people get knowledgeable and everything becomes known through experiences, humans misplace contact with nature, in other words, they lose contact with God. Though Blake was a dissenter this idea of losing innocence and get consciousness of the reality can be seeing process of losing contact with nature. For instance, in the poem “Introduction of Experience” he refers to the “Bard” who is a reference Druid from the Celtic religion. He reinforces the idea of the necessity to get in contact to nature. Consequently, humans beings need to go back on time in order to become innocence and get in contact to their real nature
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