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At the end of the Eighteenth Century took place the greater revolution in the whole mankind history, given that it transformed (though modernised would be a more suitable term) many aspects of daily life causing the birth of the modern society, which configured the cradle for the most unorthodox, original and intellectually challenging genius, William Blake, who became a powerful exponent, and even an influent visionary, to the subsequent notions and ideas of literature, and namely poetry, during the brand-new Romanticism.
His work has been very regarded and reviewed until our days, when the dualistic tendency which he dealt with is still prevailing in the Western thought. Blake was always moving around a dichotomy between the ideas of “Spiritual Life”, which was considered free and savage, and “Corporeal Life” which he assimilated to those human actions that are limited and monotonous. These two terms stand for two states of mind working in an opposite way such as “the divine” and “the material” in which Blake spent his life, in literary and philosophical terms, completely obsessed, ever since he realized human life was, and indeed is, intensely dualistic. The poet coped with this binomial and devoted two complete series of poetical deeds which he headed “Songs of Innocence” and “Songs of Experience”, and subtitled them: “Showing the two Contraries States of Mind”. The term “contrary” had a very relevant and specific meaning for the labelled “Blakean” philosophical thought, due to the fact that he felt that everything associated to human life is really composed of opposite parts: heaven and hell, head and heart, male and female, life and death, God and evil, or innocence and experience, amongst many others.
From he published his first work named Poetical Sketches on, he was pretty aware of being modifying the way of artistic expression because the prior had become old-fashioned, but when composing Songs of Innocence and of Experience he noticed...