Children in Blake Poetry

Chidren in Blake´s Poetry "Children" has been a prominent theme in a number of Blake's poems throughout the poems collection Songs of Innocence and Experience. Many of these were written from the perspective of children, while others are about children as seen from an adult perspective. What is clear is that the author firmly intended to draw attention to the positive aspects of human understanding prior to the corruption and distortion …

…to have many of the lyrics to fall into pairs, so that the same situation or problem is seen through the lens of innocence first and then experience. <Tab/>So all things considered, children's role in Blake's poetry becomes vital to explore the values and limitations of two different perspectives on the world, as they represent all that is pure, white, innocent and untouched by the corruption and vice of adulthood.