چکیده (انگلیسی):

Critics of William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience not surprisingly have
focused their attention on the galaxy of characters whose voices are heard throughout
Blake’s poems. These are the voices of London’s disenfranchised—the men, women
and children who thronged London’s streets and whose piteous cries became the object
of Blake’s concern. However, in addition to these spoken voices there runs throughout
Songs an undercurrent of silent voices—voices that can be inferred, or as Blake would
say, imagined—which speaks no less directly to the reader but which sustains Blake’s
depiction of the frightful living conditions he witnessed daily in late eighteenth century
London. By giving voice to these unspoken, silent voices that haunt the margins of his
poems, and complementing them with the voices of his other characters, Blake hoped
to create a more sympathetic and humane vision of life by showing his fellow citizens
how they might transcend many of the evils that plagued their daily existence