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A review by duffypratt
Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake
challenging
emotional
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
4.75
The poems themselves are as much like songs as they are poems. Blakes use of rhythm and rhyme is delightful. And it's cool to see how much simpler in these terms the innocence poems are than the experience poems.
On top of that, you get a kind of mirroring between the poems in the two states. Thus, The Little Lamb is reflected by The Tyger. There are several of these that have the same name in both sections. This structure takes a series of poems which are lyrical and delightful on their own, and it places them in a context which adds to their depth.
I'm sure I will be returning to these fairly frequently.
On top of that, you get a kind of mirroring between the poems in the two states. Thus, The Little Lamb is reflected by The Tyger. There are several of these that have the same name in both sections. This structure takes a series of poems which are lyrical and delightful on their own, and it places them in a context which adds to their depth.
I'm sure I will be returning to these fairly frequently.