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

2. Journal #9 Age of Reason and Romantic Era Personified
Using your notes, think about the ideas of the Age of Reason—what writers and philosophers esteemed during this age. If you could give these ideas and values human form, what would this person be like? In other words, think about the traits (physical and personality) that would embody the Age of Reason.
Similarly, do a character study for the Romantic Era—what would a person who embodied all the ideals of this movement be like?
Which person do you identify with more?
If you run out of things to say, simply describe with as much detail as possible what you know about the Romantic Movement.

3. 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?

4. 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?

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

6. Self-Analysis: Part 1
What is your favorite color? Think of four adjectives to describe it.
What is your favorite animal? Again, think of four adjectives to describe it.

7. Part 2
The color is supposed to represent how you see yourself. Do you think this description is accurate?
The animal is supposed to represent how others see you. Again, do you think this description is accurate. Explain.