William Blake

William Blake is showing comparing two things: innocence and experience. He paired both of these topics together because his main focus in all of the poems is children. If you think about it, children start out as completely innocent. And as children are growing, they become more experienced, which in turn, makes this innocence eventually fade. He explains in his poems, that they don't have a lot of choices to make when it comes to decisions because they're still young. However, a choice they can and usually do make, is to be happy when things are going wrong. Blake uses lots of recurring things that can symbolize happiness, such as the sun. Face it, everyone is always happier when the sun's shining. Blake gets the point across that you should not take life for granted. You were brought here for a reason, and just because of that, you should choose to be happy. Just when the going gets tough, hold on, because it will get better. Blake says that when one gains experience of the world, and is introduced to bad things, it is easier for the happiness to suddenly slip away. This is why he uses children, because they are innocent and happy all of the time.