Journal Seventeen- Songs of Innocence and Of Experience

William Blake's, Songs of Innocence, is about mainly children. It is about the children stories of time where it was published on some type of wood. It was colored and filled with designs to make it look attractive. In contrast, his Songs of Experience is about the "adult life" and what happens afterwards when you make such choices in your life. He also adds a little bit of religion into it, which makes it interesting.
The most interesting set of poems from the Songs of Innocence and Experience is the Tyger (from the Experience section) and the Lamb (from the Innocence section). The two poems compliment eachother and stand for same kind of story. The Lamb is in the correct place because the Lamb is an innocent animal, which is more directed towards Jesus and heaven, and it has the light hearted mood that is more directed for a child if it was to be read to them. The Tyger is more of the suspenceful, cruel animal that fits in the opposite part of the "Songs of Innocence". In the poem, it even says "thy fearful symmetry", which puts more fear in the heart than the grace being put into it by the Lamb poem. The Tyger poem even makes referece to the Lamb poem when it talks about "does he who makes the Lamb make thee?", implying how could something so graceful and innocent be created by the same one who makes something so cruel and fearful.

Work Cited

Booth, Alison, and Kelly J. Mays. "Songs of Innocence and Of Experience." The Norton Introduction to Literature. 10th ed. New York: W.W. Norton &, 2010. 1207. Print.