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A 7 page paper which examines the Songs of Experience and the Songs of Innocence of William Blake. The poems examined are The Lamb (Innocence), The Tyger (Experience), Holy Thursday (Innocence), and Holy Thursday (Experience). Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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"When William Blake composed his collection of Songs of Experience, he moved several poems that he had already placed in his Songs of Innocence to the new collection" and gave
them a different perspective, a new understanding of wisdom or experience (The Role of Wisdom in Blakes Songs of Innocence and Experience). Another critic indicates that "In the Songs of
Innocence and Experience we are apparently presented with two different worlds, narrated by two different narrators" (Dabugas). In some of the poems it seems that the same subject or issue
is examined from different perspectives. Such is apparently the case with Holy Thursday, which is the title of a poem found in Innocence and in Experience, and The Lamb from
Innocence and The Tyger from Expereince. The following essay examines these four poems individually and discusses how they compliment one another. Holy Thursday (Innocence) Blakes "Holy Thursday" poems
are somewhat different from one another as they discuss the perspective of innocence as well as experience. The first poem, "Holy Thursday: Twas on a Holy Thursday, Their Innocent Faces
Clean," is one of innocence and opens with a worded imagery which consists of young children who are clean and bright. It seems that we can assume they are not
wealthy children, for the focus is on the fact that their faces are clean and their clothes are relatively powerful earth tones. They are beaming children and they are humble
and full of a powerful grace: "O what a multitude they seemd, these flowers of London town!/ Seated in companies they sit with radiance all their own./ The hum of
multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs,/ Thousands of little boys and girls raising their innocent hands" (Blake 5-8). In these lines we get a sense of innocence and
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