<P> For Songs of Innocence and Experience, Blake used a method called illuminated printing, in which he had complete control over both his poems and the illustrations . The Norton textbook states that when it comes to reading this illuminated manuscript: </P> <P> "To read a Blake poem without the pictures is to miss something important: Blake places words and images in a relationship that is sometimes mutually enlightening and sometimes turbulent, and that relationship is an aspect of the poem's argument . </P> <P> The illustration itself contributes and adds to the nature theme . There is a vine - like vegetation that both frames the poem and divides the stanzas . Along the left margin, the vines are straight and vertical . On the right, the vines become thick, leaves, flowers, or even grape - like . Many of the letters are mixed with the vines and nature (Such as "And" in line 5, "of" in Line 9) or emulate the vine - like vegetation ("Youth" in line 15, "heavy" in line 21). </P> <P> The William Blake Archive analyzes the snake along the bottom of the page: </P>

Analysis of the poem earth's answer by william blake