In Songs of Innocence, all of the poems revolve around children, and the way a child sees or learns about God. The children in all of these poems are basically bereft of experience, but at this young age, they are beginning to or are forced to grow up quickly. Each poem speaks of the innocence of the child involved, the sort of lack of sin and in this way, Blake uses

Innocence and Experience are two completely different aspects of human nature. Blake uses these two aspects to show the difference between the two and to show how easily people can go from child-like innocence to cynical, unhappy experience. He uses these two ideas more so in the two Chimney Sweep poems, showing how children of the same age and who have the same job can both be full of innocence or full of experience, though not at the same time. There is a thin line between innocence and experience, one that is easily crossed, but once that line is crossed, one can never return. As children we start off as innocent and perhaps naïve beings and as we grow older our experience hardens us and we lose that child-like innocence. Perhaps we are better off being innocent, that way we would never know the hardships which are usually evident in adulthood. Perhaps without experience, we would never fully appreciate the innocence and the naïveté of children. Although innocence and experience are on opposite sides of the human nature spectrum, could we ever truly have one without the other? Would we ever want to?

the presence of God or his angels to help portray this innocence. Blake also uses the innocence of th

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