Question

What is the complete
title of the book
Songs of Innocence
and of Experience?
Showing the Two Contrary
States of the Human Soul
Showing the Two Stages of
Human Experience
Showing the Two Sides of
Human Life
Sharing the Two Aspects of
the Human Mind​

Answer 1

Answer:

The poem is central to Blake's design in the Songs of Experience, as it marks the psychological passage from childhood innocence to adult experience.

Blake explores the two contrary states of the human soul in his collection of poems called Songs of Innocence and Experience, which is subtitled "Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul." The two contrary states he examines correspond to the Biblical state of innocence before the Fall—before humans ate of the tree of Good and Evil—and the state that followed. After the Fall, humans began to live, as we do today, in the world of experience, which includes a clear knowledge of evil.