What should I write about if i were doing an essay with this title?

Question

"the two contrary states of the human mind" How does Blake explore this concept in "Songs of Innocence and Experience"?

- I don't exactly understand the title!! I just need help understanding it!

Answer 1

talk to your teacher about changing the topic

Answer 2

Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience (1794) juxtapose the innocent, pastoral world of childhood against an adult world of corruption and repression; while such poems as "The Lamb" represent a meek virtue, poems like "The Tyger" exhibit opposing, darker forces. Thus the collection as a whole explores the value and limitations of two different perspectives on the world. Many of the poems fall into pairs, so that the same situation or problem is seen through the lens of innocence first and then experience. Blake does not identify himself wholly with either view; most of the poems are dramatic--that is, in the voice of a speaker other than the poet himself. Blake stands outside innocence and experience, in a distanced position from which he hopes to be able to recognize and correct the fallacies of both. In particular, he pits himself against despotic authority, restrictive morality, sexual repression, and institutionalized religion; his great insight is into the way these separate modes of control work together to squelch what is most holy in human beings.

Answer 3

The two states of mind are in the title. Innocence and Experience. Talk about how blake describes his life of innocene and then experience.

Answer 4

I think that your essay is about our two mind states, the logical and the emotional one.
It's like an answer to the question"when you have to take a decision,you hear your mind or your heart?"

Answer 5

U should go on google and ask that question because who knows if some1 that answers ur question is lying.

Answer 6

http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/blake/analysis.html