William Blake was an English poet, artist, engraver, visionary and the author of exquisite lyrics in „Songs of Innocence and Songs of experience‟. He combined poetic and pictorial genius to explore life.“London” is the most outstanding poem in “The Songs of Experience”. In this poem, William Blake utters his social criticism. It shows the miseries of the common people. A large number of Blake‟s poems focused on similar themes that were relevant to the society in which he was writing, such as poems on industrialization, child labour and the more general notions of man versus nature and the individual against society. In the poem “The Garden of Love” the narrator tells of his visit to the Garden of Love and of the chapel standing where he used to play as a child. Blake‟s view on the church of those days isn‟t the most pleasant one a reason. Garden is a place in our hearts where we preserve that primal emotion. Garden reminds us of the Garden of Eden were everything was pure until the evil came and corrupted the good. That happens to almost every soul, so that there is no good when a man has lost his purity.
Keywords: author of exquisite lyrics, pictorial genius, social criticism, primal emotion etc.
