Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience demonstrate both the contrary states of innocence and experience and Blake's social criticism.

Date Submitted: 07/09/2004 23:37:54
Category: / Literature / Poetry
Length: 14 pages (3842 words)
The "Romantic period" that spans from 1798 to 1822 is an era of great social and political upheaval, which characterized by industrialization and the French revolution. Following these two main phenomena many changes in the fields of economy, politics and religion were occurred and it became a major point of discussion by the romantic age poets like Wordsworth, Blake, Keats and Shelly. They brought out the negative consequences of urbanization, degradation of nature, exploitation, institutionalization and so …
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