![]() ![]() In obvious terms, the band took the name for their current (and presumably next) album from poetry books. Do read it in full, as it backs up its arguments with relevant quotes from both Blake poems and U2 songs, but I'll quote the most important parts here. This was written before the release of U2's Songs of Experience, but it's pretty insightful nonetheless. Kokkoris, probably the closest thing there is to an 'expert on U2', goes into more detail about similarities in theme and ideas between Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience and the eponymous U2 songs. ![]() I'm not saying I have much of that but what little I have, I wanted to cram into these songs.Īn analysis by Tassoula E. If you're talking about innocence, you've probably already lost it but I do believe at the far end of experience, it's possible to recover it with wisdom. I try not to talk about William Blake too much because it sounds pretentious quoting such a literary giant but it was his great idea I pinched to compare the person we become through experience to the person who set out on the journey. ![]() According to Bono (lead vocalist and primary lyricist of U2), the main thing they took from Blake was the idea of comparing innocence and experience: ![]()
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