The mind of each baby is clean as a blank paper. He is alone, and he will acquire his first experience thanks to his parents. In other words, his first experience comes with education and environment.So innocence is one basic of standard education. Nowadays many people think that experience destroy little by little innocence. So as William Blake demonstrate it in his poetryInfant joy, where he describes the opposition between innocence and experience:" two contrary states of the human soul (889)". In Infant joy the author describes innocence. This poetry has a joyful connotation trough the words pretty, sweet, and smile. The baby is happy and pretty :.
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" pretty joy ! .
sweet joy but two days old, .
sweet joy I call thee ; .
thou dost smile, .
I sing the while- .
Sweet joy befall thee." (890).
Innocence is synonymous of a joy of live, which hide all other problems. Whereas the second poetry Infant Sorrow has a negative connotation which illustrates the passage from the innocence to experience. The baby leapt and cry:" .
Into the dangerous world I leapt, .
Helpless, naked, piping loud ". (890).
In this example the baby does not want to see the reality and cries because he refuses to accept it. From this first disappointment , the life starts. In this case experience gives a realistic view of the world while the first poetry does not give it. That is why the baby is innocent and smiles. This first baby called Joy did not live any experience and have an unrealistic view of the world. In the second text of William blake, we have the lexical field of jail which reinforces the idea that the boy withdraw into oneself and showing that innocence act on the human as an invisible force preventing to sea the realties:" .