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A Critical Analysis Of Blake’S, “Songs Of Innocence And Experience” Versus Whitman’S Song Of Myself”

A Critical Analysis of Blake’s, “Songs of Innocence and Experience” versus Whitman’s Song of Myself”


Although William Blake and Walt Whitman are writers of the so called “Romantic” period, their work in “Songs of Innocence and Experience” (Blake, 1794) and “Song of Myself” (Whitman 1855, 1856, 1860, & 1867 in various versions) provide very contrasting views of their individual perception of mankind’s being and state of spirituality in relation to man and God. Also while both named songs, neither is but instead are poems focusing on the same topic; namely the human experience in relation to a greater self. In “Innocence”, Blake starts out with advocating the...

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