The Song or Voice of Innocence tells the facts of experience, the superficial subject. It is the voice that, in effect, says: “first this happened, then this happened, and then this happened”. He reveals that the journey between innocence and experience is a dominant theme in McEwan's essay "Atonement" and Hartley's "The Go Between." Innocence represents. The contrast between innocence and experience is a central theme that has fascinated writers, thinkers and artists for centuries. This essay explores William Blake's popular series of poems Songs of Innocence and of Experience 1794 helps illuminate the interdependence and relative value of both. Innocence is the absence of crime, guilt, sin, knowledge, cunning, cunning, worldly experience, sophistication, and sex. Written in two versions, Songs of Innocence is sweet and optimistic, while the Songs of Experience version closes with a foreboding: O the wiles that creep. In your sleeping little heart.