![]() ![]() Also, the concept of guidance and protection appears through the text in different forms, as a means to return to a lost innocence. There is a strong presence of the natural world, very much admired by Blake, and his means toward mysticism, notably in contrast with Wordsworth's “’atheistic’ love of nature” (Kazin 35). The theme of the child who is lost and later found is also present in the character of the Emmet (ant) who is given the privilege of capitalisation to show its personification also in the ant's children, and even maybe in the narrator's person. No wonder the artist thought first of including it in “Songs of Experience” at first, finally deciding to move it back to “Songs of Innocence” (according to the Blake Digital Text Project). In this poem, Blake portrays the concepts of the return to innocence from experience. ![]()
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