1. Journal #7 Innocence versus Experience
What do you value more, innocence or experience?

2. Journal #5 The Lamb vs. the Tyger
Summarize the differences between the lamb and the tyger. How are they each characterized? What is the speaker’s attitude toward each respectively? What kind of God is portrayed through each poem respectively?

3. Returning
Have you ever gone back to a place where you’d spent considerable time or that was significant to you in some way in the past and found the experience very different? Explain. Was your memory faithful to the place? Did you find that the place had changed, or that you had changed?

4. Blake versus Wordsworth
How does Wordsworth’s treatment of innocence and experience compare with that of Blake’s?