The city of London on the songs of experience from William Blake: an interpretation of social changes occurred in english industrial society in the last decades of the eighteenth century

Abstract

This article intends to analyze some of the social changes in England in the last decades of the Eighteenth century from the poem in London that is in the work Songs of Innocence and of Experience of the poet and engraver William Blake – an author inserted in the English Romantic movement. His work has been marked, as a whole, by mystical thought culminating in the creation of a cosmogony able to explain, according to the author, the human condition. We can notice in the poems of William Blake his vision about the time in which he lived, his interpretation of reality can elucidate some of the experiences of English society in the transition between the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries: that was part of the process of industrialization, the increasing displacement of reason as center of thought and heard the echoes of the French Revolution. Songs of Innocence and of Experience contains the foundations of thought developed over the later works of William Blake – expresses social transformations he lived in a universe where politics, religion and art intertwine in building a peculiar interpretation of the formation of modern industrial society.