• "Songs is notable not only for a concern with the different ways children and adults see and understand the world (a theme that would occupy Wordsworth, too) but also for its acid critiques of social evils, political injustice, and their agents" (Longman 162).

• Describe Blake's production of his illuminated texts.

119:

• Explain Blake's conception of the relationship between innocence and experience.

120-21:

• Explain the main points of Blake's "mythmaking."

"The Chimney Sweeper"
[Songs of Innocence version ]
127:

• What is significant about the comparison of Tom's hair with a lamb's wool (6)?
• What is the significance of the black and white imagery used in the poem?

[Songs of Experience version]
133:

• How does the message of this poem compare with that found in the Songs of Innocence version?
• Explain the final stanza.
  

• Summarize the message of this poem.

"A Divine Image":
141:

• How does this poem compare with "The Divine Image"?
• Is it possible to reconcile the contrasting messages of these two poems? Explain.

• What does Blake mean by duty in the final line (24)?
• What are "the clothes of death" (7)?
• Explain line 12.

Other Blake Poems:

The Tyger:

• What does Blake mean by "the forests of the night" (2)?
• Explain the imagery used in lines  13-16.
• What is the speaker's answer to the question in line 20?

"London"

• What does charter'd mean (1)?
• What is the "marriage hearse" (16)?
• What are mind-forg'd manacles (8)? How does this image compare with the imagery found in lines 13-16 of "The Tyger"?