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William Blake's Images and Words in Illuminated Songs of Innocence and Experience

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reader or listener with incredible images. But, those images are, for the most part, incredibly different for each and every individual. It is the same when we read novels and  imagine the characters, for we are only left with our own imagination concerning images of vision when it comes to the written word. It seems that the poet William Blake  understood this and being a visual artist as well as a poet he often brought the two art forms together, offering the reader actual depictions of images within his own  head. In his work "Illuminated Songs of Innocence and Experience" the reader and viewer is privileged to see within the words of Blake and see images that represent the poets  own perspectives. Bearing that in mind the following paper examines the relationship between words and images in Blakes "Illuminated Songs of Innocence and Experience." Words and Images Blake once  stated that "All that we see is vision" (Hodgson). According to Hodgson these words can easily sum up the experience of seeing Blakes work and reading Blakes work. In regards  to one particular exhibit, "Not a large canvas in sight, Blake dazzles with detail, the master of expressing infinity in the infinitesimal" (Hodgson). In this we can sense an understanding  of the power and impact of Blakes illustrations concerning his inner images and his poetry. As one author notes, "Those who know his work often feel strongly about the visionary  poet and visual artist William Blake (1757-1827) whose legacy includes some of the most sublime works produced in Great Britain or elsewhere" (Leopold). Holy Thursday (Innocence) Blakes "Holy  Thursday" poems are somewhat different from one another as they discuss the perspective of innocence as well as experience. The first poem, "Holy Thursday: Twas on a Holy Thursday, Their