Auguries of Innocence Themes

There's a ton of injustice going on in "Auguries of Innocence": animal abuse, child abuse, unlawful empire building… the works. And what does Blake think about injustice? Well, he's against it, o...

Blake likes to get cosmic, and "Auguries of Innocence" is no exception. We see tears turning into babies and God metamorphosing from beams of light into a human. But aside from the trippy special e...

Blake's obviously spiritual—"Auguries of Innocence" references life after death, Eternity, and God at different points. But his spirituality isn't very familiar: he has a unique interpretation of...

This theme is closely related to the first theme, "Injustice," since making people suffer is a pretty common form of injustice. For Blake, suffering didn't come into existence until humanity fell f...

In "Auguries of Innocence," Blake really wants wisdom—and he wants to give it out to other people, too (free of charge, even). For him, wisdom has to do with understanding what you can and can't...