Mr. Blake

I thought Blake was rather depressing to read, especially his "Songs of Innocence and Experience." It almost seemed like he was making fun of children and their innocence. I also thought it was interesting that while his poems are complex in their structure they are easy to read and fairly easy to understand. I commented in one of the forums that reading his poems seemed like listening to a nursery rhyme. Here he is writing these poems about innocence with an almost sarcastic tone while the structure is shaped to appear innocent. Maybe it's just me but I thought this was pretty ironic.