Although the physical world has not changed, the state of the soul of individuals has, and therefore, the perception of the physical world leads to the difference in the depiction of society.
Likewise, in the Songs of Experience, the same world is described as a much more terrifying one of war, poverty, disease, and social oppression. Innocence refers to the inner feelings and the purity of the soul rather than social perfection. Many of them include cruelty and suffering. The Songs of Innocence, however, do not completely describe a faultless world. Blake says that these two sets of poems are meant to capture “two contrary states of the human soul”. In 1794, he added the Songs of Experience.
The Song’s of Innocence were written in 1789. Companion Poems From Songs of Innocence and Experience
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