Blake’s categories are modes of perception that become standard in Romanticism, where childhood is a state of “innocence” and virtue, but is not wholly protected from the world. It should not be surprising that some of the major themes Blake deals with in this compilation of poems is the changing perspectives and perceptions of innocence and experience. Major Themes of the Text Innocence versus Experience: Changing Perspectives Together, the Songs of Innocence and of Experience are complicated critiques of childhood virtue, reflective experience, and sociopolitical issues. This could not be further from the truth. At first glance, the Songs of Innocence appear to be straightforward and simplistic with seemingly naïve lyrics. Five years later he bound these poems with a set of new poems in a volume titled Songs of Innocence and Experience Shewing the two contrary States of the Human Soul.
William Blake’s most popular collection of poetry was Songs of Innocence, which was published in 1789. This exposed him to a variety of Gothic styles which often inspired his work throughout his career. When he was fourteen, he apprenticed with an engraver and one of his assignments was to sketch the tombs at Westminster Abbey. Blake began writing poetry at age twelve. When he was ten years old, Blake expressed a wish to become a painter, so his parents sent him to a drawing school until it proved to be too costly.
Blake’s parents did not force him to attend formal schooling instead, he learned to read and write at home.
The family lived at 28 Broad Street in London in an unpretentious but respectable neighborhood. His father James was a hosier, a profession in which one sells stockings, gloves, and haberdashery. William Blake was born on Novemto a family of moderate means. 2.1 Innocence versus Experience: Changing Perspectives.
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