Songs of Experience

:This article is about the poems by William Blake. For the album by David Axelrod see Songs of Experience (album)

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The Songs of Experience is a poetry collection, forming the second part of William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience. Many of the poems appearing in Innocence have a counterpart in 'Experience', with quite a different perspective of the world. The disastrous end of the French Revolution caused Blake to lose faith in the goodness of mankind, explaining much of the volume's sense of despair. Blake also believed that children lost their innocence through exploitation and from a religious community which put dogma before mercy.

Related Topics:
William Blake - Songs of Innocence and Experience - French Revolution

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"Songs of Experience" contains the following poems:

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Introduction

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Earth's Answer

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The Clod & the Pebble

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Holy Thursday

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The Little Girl Lost & The Little Girl Found

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The Chimney Sweeper

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Nurses Song

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The Sick Rose

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The Fly

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The Angel

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The Tyger

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My Pretty Rose Tree: Ah! Sun-flower: The Lilly

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The Garden of Love

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The Little Vagabond

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London

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The Human Abstract

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Infant Sorrow

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A Poison Tree

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A Little Boy Lost

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A Little Girl Lost

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To Tirzah

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The School-Boy

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The Voice of the Ancient Bard

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Each poem is accompanied by an illuminated plate.

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See: Songs of Innocence.

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