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  Contrasting elements of 'Innocence' and 'Experience' in Blake's poetry 'The Lamb' and 'The Tyger'.   William Blake followed his own maxim   that “without contraries is no progression” when in 1794 he published together his 'Songs of Innocence' and 'Songs of Experience' the form and manner of a single book and also described his 'Songs' in the title page as "Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul". ( 2). The two sets of 'Songs'   are very different from each other in character, and accordingly does the poet group his verses under two main headings.   ‘The Lamb' ( from 'Songs of Innocence') and 'The Tyger’( from 'Songs of Experience') are both representative poem of Blake. They celebrate two contrary states of human soul – innocence and experience. The 'Songs of Innocence' professes an imaginative vision of the state of innocence; the 'Songs of Experien...