William Blake is a poet best known for the engravings that accompany his works of poetry. These engravings included in the poems help describe the meaning of the poems. However, sometimes the engravings he includes in his poetry can lead to complications for the interpreter of the poem. There are many variations of the same engraving that accompany a poem, all original; some of these engravings complete the poem, while others complicate it. An example of this occurrence, where one engraving can complement the poem and the other complicate it, is in William Blake's work “The Echoing Green” which can be found in Blake's Songs of Innocence. The important thing to recognize is that regardless of whether the poem is further complicated or simplified because of the image, the poem and its accompanying image still evoke thought and discussion on the part of the reader. When reading the poem alone, without the engraving, two different interpretations have been found. The first is that “The Echoing Green” is a detailed exploration of the cycle of life. Blake uses natural imagery to compensate for a person's natural growth, physically and mentally. In many cases he uses a rural landscape to compliment the innocence of 'greenness', as childish play is completely acceptable and takes us away from the urbanized world of pollution and experience. In literature, spring is often associated with growth, and here we can see that spring is the present season. For this reason the reader can connect spring both to the growth of nature and to the growth of the children described in the poem. The growth of children can be seen as a positive aspect due to its connection with spring; because winter is usually linked to de...... half of the paper ......ring this poem with its engraving you learn some things, the first thing learned is that within a poem there can be multiple interpretations. The second is that depending on which engraving the poem was being read, their interpretations of the poem will be different. These differences are caused by the fact that the engravings have a great influence on what is extracted from the poem and how it is interpreted. It is unknown whether Blake did this on purpose or not, however one can appreciate that the variety within this poem allows for many different interpretations and support for those different interpretations. Whether the engraving is complementing or complicating the poem does not matter, the important part is the fact that the poem and the engraving together evoke multiple emotions from the audience and create more thoughts than they would alone..