Abstract
William Blake is a great pre-romantic poet as well as a painter and printer and one of the greatest engravers in English history. His writing combines a variety of styles. He is an artist, a lyric poet, a mystic and a visionary. His work has fascinated and bewildered readers ever since. His Songs of Innocence and of Experience proved to be the most popular of Blake’s illuminated texts and is now regarded as a seminal work of English Romantic literature. Throughout the book of these Songs, there are many poems in Songs of Innocence which have counterparts in Songs of Experience, often, the relationship between these paired poems is being indicated either by common titles, as with the two Introductions, the two Chimney Sweepers, the two Holy Thursdays, the two Nurse’s Songs, The Divine Image and A Divine Image, The Little Boy Lost and A Little Boy Lost or by opposite titles, as with The Lamb and The Tyger, Infant Joy and Infant Sorrow, The Divine Image and Human Abstract. This paper is a brief assessment for the main reasons that stand behind Blake’s composing these paired poems with common and opposite titles in his book of Songs of Innocence and of Experience.
Key words: Innocence, Experience, Contraries, Imagination, Reason.
[1] Ph D Scholar, English Dept., Mahatma Gandhi College, S.R.T.M University, Nanded.
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