Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience

Songs of Innocence and Experience shows the two opposite states of the human soul. For Blake, innocence is summed up in the classical notion of romantics: a pure and immaculate childhood, free from the concept of biblical sin, although fully aware of the world and its circumstances. When that world begins and influences this state of innocence, the experience comes. Institutions such as the Church or the State are examples of the latter, along with the corruption, fear and suffering found in the reality of life.