William Blake's, Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, are a collection of poems presenting the two contrary aspects of the human soul; innocence and experience. The poems express a sense of a blissful and joyful world of innocence, which inevitably evolves into a world of despair, for Blake considered a world of experience to be difficult to live in once the hope of innocence began to fade. Blake's poetry is used to reflect upon the statement that there is no progression without contraries, which he demonstrated by constructing a symbolic parallel between his poems in Songs of Innocence, to those in Songs of Experience. His poems juxtapose the innocent bliss of childhood against an adult world of knowledge and corruption, for essentially, he believed that experience wanes innocence and that from experience, comes despair. Thus the collection of poems as a whole, delve into the value and...