Evil is the active springing from Energy. On the other hand, in Songs of Experience, the mood changes completely and the tone turns to a more dark and realistic narrator who has weathered in his perception and is now the experienced adult and this is brought out in the poem ‘The Tyger’, which is in direct contrast to the innocent narrative seen in ‘The Lamb’.Īn extension of the above mentioned quote, “From these contraries spring what the religious call Good and Evil. This is very well brought out in the poem ‘the Lamb’. In his Songs of Innocence, the childhood gleam of the narrator is depicted, where the youthfulness is symbolic of inexperience and naivety. It is the through these set of poems that Blake really draws out comparisons to support his theory. This is elaborated extensively through the medium of poetry in his Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794). The essence of Blake’s theory is that, in some paradoxical way, it is possible for the contraries of innocence and experience to co-exist within a human being. William Blake’s theory of contraries is very well elicited in his book The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. – Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790) The two binaries of nature itself are reflected in the innocent and the mighty, here. Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate are necessary to Human existence.”
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