Blake exposes some other realities in the “Songs of Experience.”
Blake exposes some other realities in the “Songs of Experience.” Blake works through contrasts and parallels to lament how harsh experiences among adult life destroy an excellent mindset and innocence experience. The poetry also articulates some of the weaknesses of the innocent view. For instance, in “The Tyger,” Blake account for real negative forces that innocence cannot confront. The documentary, “Children of the Revolution. The Children Who Built Victorian Britain,” by Jane Humphries, exposes the child labor and workers in Britain, primarily during the Industrial Revolution. In the “Chimney Sweeper,” an adult encounter a young chimney sweeper abandoned in the snow because parents went to pray in Church. It underscores the injustice since the innocent child was left in the snow while parents backed the Church, and the government permitted young boys to be sold into deadly drudgery and work as chimney sweepers. After being abandoned, innocent children learn the misery and hardship of the universe, which covers their innocence and corrupt or distort their ingenuousness of innocent love. People have become less concerned with the character of their faith compared to the Church institutions, the role Church plays in politics, and its implications on the individual mindset and society as a whole. Therefore, it is crystal clear that experience on children adds another layer on top of their innocence, which typically darkens their hopeful vision and, at the same time, compensating for its blindness.
