{"id":811,"date":"2025-05-19T17:22:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T17:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/?p=811"},"modified":"2025-05-20T20:08:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T20:08:04","slug":"songs-of-innocence-and-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/songs-of-innocence-and-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs of Innocence and Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>Title<\/td><td>Songs of Innocence and Experience<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Author<\/td><td>William Blake<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Series<\/td><td>NA<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Ranking<\/td><td>\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Genre<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/tag\/poetry\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"481\">Poetry<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Links<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/171547.Songs_of_Innocence_and_of_Experience?from_search=true&amp;from_srp=true&amp;qid=8MrMQvIDY5&amp;rank=1\">Goodreads<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The work compiles two contrasting but directly related books of poetry by William Blake. <em>Songs of Innocence<\/em> honors and praises the natural world, the natural innocence of children and their close relationship to God. <em>Songs of Experience<\/em> contains much darker, disillusioned poems, which deal with serious, often political themes. It is believed that the disastrous end to the French Revolution produced this disillusionment in Blake. He does, however, maintain that true innocence is achieved only through experience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"758\" height=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/songs.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-263\" style=\"width:363px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/songs.jpg 758w, https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/songs-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/songs-647x1024.jpg 647w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 758px) 100vw, 758px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title Songs of Innocence and Experience Author William Blake Series NA Ranking \u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50\u2b50 Genre Poetry Links Goodreads The work compiles two contrasting but directly related books of poetry by William Blake. Songs of Innocence honors and praises the natural world, the natural innocence of children and their close relationship to God. Songs of Experience contains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[465],"tags":[481],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-poetry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":813,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions\/813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmidnight.com\/mediabox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}