Comparison of Blake's "Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience" both poems included
Title: Comparison of Blake's "Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience" both poems included
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Comparison of Blake's "Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience" both poems included
Introduction (Innocence)
Piping down the valleys wild,
Piping songs of pleasant glee,
On a cloud I saw a child,
And he laughing said to me:
'Pipe a song about a lamb!'
So I piped with merry chear.
'Piper, pipe that song again;'
So I piped, he wept to hear.
'Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe;
Sing thy songs of happy chear:'
So I sung the same again,
While he wept with joy to hear.
'Piper, …
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showed last 75 words of 2771 total…benefit of human beings, and the other is ignorance to this world. As the child grows, his conscious mind accepts 'experience', or reality. His childhood innocence is forgotten and lost forever, for innocence is not knowing experience. Blake can wrote his innocence books before he had been exposed to the social injustices of his time. Also, one can write about innocence from remembering it. However, living innocence, and writing about it are two different things.
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