the lamb from songs of innocence by william blake

They are told from the perspective of children or about children. The poems in Blake’s Songs of Innocence are mostly a hopeful, idyllic look at the world, religion, birth/creation, and childhood experiences like playing in the park. ( This website offers full text of all the poems for Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience.) A Lens of Innocence and Experience Innocence Both utilize repetition of themes, imagery, and words/phrases (lyrics), pairing the poems/songs from one volume to another. Both U2 and Blake present Songs of Innocence as a look at the world through the perspective of childhood and youth and Songs of Experience as an adult’s perspective. Inspired by William Blake’s collection of poetry, Songs of Innocence and of Experience, U2’s two-some uses a similar framework for the albums. Well, technically I guess you can… We’ve had SOI since 2015, sans Songs of Experience, but now that SOE is out, why would you not want the pair? (I’ve been crying because it took this long for my pre-ordered vinyl set to get to me… but also because this album is just so beautiful, and emotional…)Īnd these two albums do belong together.

Well, maybe Songs of Innocence (SOI), because it is a companion piece after all. For the past 2 weeks, my social media has been full of the U2 tribe posting about sitting in their cars openly weeping on the way to work, crying at their desks at work, or at home, on their couchs, just sobbing through the songs… on repeat… just SOE… playing nothing else since its December 1 release. Someone even suggested we need a support group… So the U2 fandom is crying… big blobs of salty tears… (I’m not crying, you’re crying!) No, not because of the Ticketmaster Verified Fan kerfuffle… This time, it’s because of U2’s latest album release, Songs of Experience (SOE), the band’s 14th studio album.

The lamb from songs of innocence by william blake