The Songs of Innocence and Experience deal with different types of love. Explore two sorts of relationship either by comparing a pair of poems or by ranging across the whole collection.

This is only a short answer space but I can make a general comment. There is the love of nature and man as well as man and God.Blake uses pastoral imagery and personification as motifs in order to underscore the undeniable connection between humans and nature. While much pastoral artwork emphasizes the majesty of nature, Blake’s poems do so while also using natural landscapes as a context for human endeavors. For example, the very first poem in the collection, “Introduction,” sees the speaker “piping down the valleys wild,/piping songs of pleasant glee” and later plucking a hollow reed to make his “rural pen” . The natural world here is thus intrinsically tied to the actions of the speaker.

Throughout his works, Blake frequently refers to the redemptive work of Jesus Christ. While he alludes to the atoning act of Christ Crucified, more often Blake focuses on the Incarnation, the taking on of human form by the divine Creator, as the source of redemption for both human beings and nature. He emphasizes that Christ "became a little child" just as men and women need to return to a state of childlike grace in order to restore the innocence lost to the social machinery of a cruel world.