Blake's insight into the "two contrary states of the human soul" from Songs of Innocence and Experience.

Below is a description of how William Blake skillfully portrayed the two aspects of the human soul from Songs of innocence and song of experience?

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William Blake's poems aimed to expose religious corruption and refocus modern devotion on its pure origins as a spiritual writer throughout his life. His famous poem songs of innocence and songs of experience, like most of Blake's religious work, incorporates subtle sexual imagery and violence, subjects Blake addressed more fully in his "Prophetic volumes."

 

William Blake peeps into the inner soul of the human character Innocence and Experience. These two opposing aspects of the human soul or life. Although the former (Innocence) is white and the latter (Experience) is black, the two are complementary. They are required for life to exist – for the entire cycle of life to take place. Hence two opposing states are represented by Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. Blake sings about the exuberant delights of youth in Songs of Innocence, in perfect harmony with God and Nature. However, while the condition of innocence is enchanting, it is not all-encompassing and cannot persist for long. Man must go through pain in order to reach a better level; he must go through the actual experience of existence. Between the poem of Innocence and of Experience, there is still a relationship.


The emotional tensions between these two opposing states are depicted in the poems in both groups. Blake depicts the joy and innocence of a child's life in the Songs of Innocence, but the poems in the Songs of Experience recall the scars and cruelties of the civilized world. Piper wishes to sing songs of purity and happiness to make everyone happy in the introduction to the Songs of Innocence. However, in the preface to Songs of The speaker is the Bard, and his tone is one of caution and alarm. He implores the Earth to break free from the shackles of tradition, moral laws, and religious taboos.


The beyond, present, and destiny are all awesome for the Piper and the Bard. The beyond can simplest be the primal harmony for the Piper, the existing is innocence, and the instantaneous destiny is experience; the beyond is innocence for the Bard, and the instantaneous destiny (or present) experiences, with the destiny being a better innocence. Piper`s tone is described with the aid of using melancholy. "Mild and tender numbers" are utilized by one singer, while "wonderful tones" are utilized by the other.


The contrast between Innocence's lamb and Experience's tiger is stark and dramatic. These two poems depict the two opposing aspects of the human psyche. The lamb from songs of innocence by William Blake is gentle and kind, one with God and child, but The Tyger, its adversary, is a violent beast with terrifying symmetry. The pastoral landscape is the home of the lamb, whereas the jungle of Experience is the home of the wild tiger. The lamb represents the gentler aspects of life.


The tiger represents strength and vitality, whereas the lamb represents meekness and domesticity. The white fleece, after all, provides a stark contrast to the tiger's tough sinew and blazing stripes. The lamb has a gentle beauty, whereas the tiger has "terrific beauty." The poet asks if the same God is responsible for both of these conflicting aspects of human life:

 

"Did the God who made the lamb also made the tiger?"

"Nurse's Song" appears in two poems, one in auguries of innocence and the other in of Experience. The nurse in the first of these is generous and caring. It is her responsibility as a nurse to transport the youngster’s home and safeguard them from the encroaching night. She, on the other hand, joyfully enables the children to play until they are exhausted and content, or until the sunsets. The children's joy becomes overt and extravagant, and once again—'

 

The little ones leaped and shouted and laughed,

And all the hills echoed.

The scene of the playing innocent youngsters brings pleasure and peace to the nurse in the lamb from songs of innocence by William Blake. In Experience, however, the nurse is focused with herself and her feelings. She maintains a close eye on the kids at all times. From her perspective, life is pointless, a waste of time in childhood, and an embarrassment in old age. She chastises the kids by saying,

 

Your spring and your day are wasted in play,

And your winter and night in disguise.

 

Even though the conditions of their employment were not ideal, Chimney Sweeper of Songs of Innocence represented the innocence and content of the chimney sweepers. The youngster who works as a chimney sweeper tells his story of suffering and redemption in the poem. His mother died when he was a child. At a young age, his father sold it to an industrialist. As a result, he was hired to sweep chimneys and live a life of work and hardship. He had to sleep in a smoky environment. The soot that attaches to his body is so choking that the youngster sees it as a coffin in his dream. Tom, one of the chimney sweepers' children, dreamed that an Angel would rescue all the chimney sweepers from their dungeons.

(And by came an Angel who had a bright key,

And he opened the coffins and set them all free;

Then down a green plain leaping, laughing, they run,

And wash in a river, and shine in the Sun.

In the chimney sweeper songs of experience, however, there is no such deliverance.The poem depicts an innocent chimney sweeper's tragic release of restrained pain. Here, the little black thing utters a harsh remark —

And because I am happy, and dance, and sing,

They think they have done me no injury,

And are gone to praise God and His Priest and King,

Who make up a Heaven of our misery.

Blake believed that in the human being, innocence and experience coexist and that religion's mistake was to minimize or dismiss the basic oppositions in human nature. Songs of Experience has a disillusioned and desolate tone to it. But there is a courageous light of optimism despite all the evil and despair. In songs of innocence and songs of experience, Blake is arguing that life must be viewed as a whole. Only by acknowledging the existence of the harsher features is it possible to overcome them and achieve a higher level of innocence.

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