Blake_And_Wordsworth__The_Importance_Of_Childhood

Blake And Wordsworth: The Importance Of Childhood Blake and Wordsworth: The Importance of Childhood Childhood has been said to be the thing we spend the rest of our lives getting over. To a Romantic, this statement could not be further from the truth. Romantics see childhood as a time of innocence, an exquisite time of beauty and growth, a time where one can see the world through untainted eyes. William Blake and William Wordsworth, writers of Romantic literature, each tackled the feat of explaining the importance of this time in ones life. Not only writing on the great splendor of childhood, but the need to leave this uninformed stage in life. Blake spends a great deal of time with his idea of innocence. He has an entire theory about innocence, its importance, and necessity to a full life. According to Blake, life begins in a world of innocence, a world without shadow bathed in the light of purity and saturated with love. This is a world where all is connected: humanity, nature, the divine. There is no separation between the self and anything, and the world is there simply for the pleasure of ones self. Blake says innocence, world, experience, childhood, wordsworth, one, life, blake, sweep, child, must, young, work, being, time, songs, nature, children, about, weep, subject, rationalized, poem, idea, even, chimney, boy, black, begins, works, wordsworth’s, tom, thing, stole, much