William Blake

Question

想請問各位大大，對於 The songs of innocence The songs of experience 有何感想與見解, 我很需要你們的想法 ,謝謝

Answer 1

One author that has influenced this positive experience was William Blake. William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience were great literary examples that describe the conflict between innocence and experience. In "The Lamb" of Songs of Innocence, Blake presents someone who receives an answer to his question and believes the answer without reservation. "Little Lamb who made thee...Little Lamb I'll tell thee/He is called by thy name/For he calls himself a Lamb" (870). "The Lamb" describes someone with a child-like faith that does not question many things, but simply believes what is presented to him by faith. In Songs of Experience's contrasting piece, "The Tyger," Blake describes someone who is much more confused than this child-like figure in "The Lamb." This character seems to question everything and anything. "What the hammer? what the chain/In what furnace was thy brain?" This character has had more exposure to life and through his experiences he is unable to accept things for the way that they are are, as a result, he questions their existence and the reasons for their existence. These two pieces from Blake remind me of the phrase "ignorance is bliss." One idea is that the character in "The Lamb" was able to enjoy life because of his ignorance and, therefore, he was not bothered by their existence. On the other hand, however, the character with life experience in "The Tyger" was irritated with the curiosity of why things are as they are. Because of this character's knowledge, he was unsatisfied with life until he knew the answers to all of his questions, but even more questions were revealed with every answer that he received.