... would have been familiar at the time, with titles such as The Lamb and The Divine Image sounding like childrens' hymns. A point to make about the apparent simplicity of Blake's poems is that they are deliberate (in an attempt to simplify the moral dilemmas of the time and present them ... Ironically, the Songs of Experience are somewhat simpler in the way that the speaker of the poem is the voice of experience, warning the innocence about the futility of life. Songs of Innocence show life through the eyes of innocent children, whilst Songs of Experience demonstrate an older person's cyni...

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