William Blake was a social critic of his time yet his criticism also reflects society of our own time as well. He mainly communicates humanitarian concerns through his “Songs of Innocence and Experience” which express two opposite states of the human soul, happiness or misery, heaven or hell. “Innocence” expresses the state of childhood, into which we are all born, a state of free imagination and infinite joy. “Experience”, according to Blake, is man’s …showed first 75 words of 933 total…

…showed last 75 words of 933 total…during his time in London and that people have become detached from the common ties to the land and are therefore blind to society’s corruption. Man’s guiltiness is evident because the only ones crying are the innocent children yet none is capable of hearing them. Therefore, Blake feels the greatest despair when he considers the effect of these social injustices on the innocent, the young, the helpless who suffer for humankind’s ignorance.