unorthodox purpose”. In “Earth’s Answer”, Blake "recasts the fall in terms of a malicious God" who keeps Earth imprisoned. Ackland notes that when the Bard admonishes Earth to rise, it seems cruel primarily because "through his failure to intervene... he is responsible for her state". Earth is lowered by man, to the point where she has to raise herself. In terms of religion, this would indicate The Fall. And as Earth is to raise herself up and rebuild herself, the image of a New Eden comes to mind. Nature A typical trope within Romantic poetry is the use of nature to reflect on experiences. The same holds true within this poem through the role of a personified Earth. Within the fourth stanza ("Does the spring hide its joy..."), Earth relates to nature and humans/human interaction with nature. Blooming is typical and expected of Spring, and Sowing and Plowing are essential for agricultural practices. Both of these rely heavily on Earth. This shows that Earth represents both humankind and nature. This means that when Earth is wronged by the Father, (who represents God), both Nature and Humankind must suffer the injuries. Illustrations 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: "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. 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). The William Blake Archive analyzes the snake along the bottom of the page: "Across the bottom an open-mouthed serpent crawls to the right across the grass. The text appears over a large expanse of sky that is dark at top and bottom left but light around the serpent's head at bottom