As a new way of critiquing the Romantic period, desperate times call for desperate measures and this was the case through the use of children's point of view in Romantic poetry. A fifty-year period called the Romantic Period included the French Revolution, the American Revolution, and the wars of national independence in Europe. William Blake, one of the best-known Romantic poets, commented on his society by looking at it through the eyes of a child in the two series of "Songs of Innocence and Experience." They say ignorance is bliss, but not according to William Blake. Blake has another meaning for “Innocence”; It associates innocence with ignorance. This means that innocence is corrupted and full of naivety. It is ignorance of corruption, of the real world order. It's not the state of ignorance that William Blake hated, but the problem is getting stuck in that state. We are born innocent but we must lose this innocence and regain it to deserve it. It's not about never falling but getting up every time you fall. How do we lose our innocence? We lose it by “Experience”. What is “experience”? It is stepping outside of our own understanding of the real world and seeing its true face. In a way, a child represents innocence; an untouched innocence that sees the world as a place of peace, love, forgiveness and an ideal place where dreams come true. Soon the child will encounter real life and soon he will be stained, soon he will decide whether to rise or fall. Life is full of deceptions and William Blake depicts the deception of the religious, social and political system. In his masterpiece Songs of Experience and of Innocence, William Blake uses the child to explore the world anew. From this perspective, he is able to talk about the world and expose his true...... middle of paper...... which is experience. Through our experience, we must seek a higher innocence. Innocence in Blake's Songs of Innocence is mocked by experience in Songs of Experience. Children and women were mistreated and Blake defended their status through his collections of poems which present two different perspectives on life in 1800. The genius of both collections of poems is that Blake managed to see the world from a new point through the eyes of children. hidden between the line and in the rhetorical devices. Works Cited Lawrence, Karen, Betsy Seifter and Lois Ratner. The McGraw-Hill Guide to ENGLISH LITERATURE. New York: McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY, 1985. Punter, David. “William Blake”. Literature in context. Ed. Rick Rylance and Judy Simons. NY: Palgrave, 2001. 79-90Stephen Bygrave. “Romantic Poems and Contexts” Romantic writing. Ed. Stephen Bygrave. The Open University, 2004