Abstract
William Blake is among the leading figures of poetic movement during the Romantic period which is seen via his writings. He is known for his collections of poetry; The Song of Innocence (1789) and The Songs of Experience (1794) which predate the publication of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads (1798) where Blake plays with a lot of stylistic devices, more especially his rampant usage of metaphoric language where he compares directly one entity with another and sometimes give vivid picture of compared entity as in the real world. The device has been identified in a number of Blake’s poems such as; “The Echoing Green”, “A Dream”, “The Little Black Boy”, “The Sick Rose”, “London”, “The Garden of Love”, “The School Boy”, “A Poison Tree”, “The French Revolution”, and “Europe: A Prophecy” among others. The paper uses reader-response as its methodology in the analysis of the metaphoric language used in the selected poems. The paper having identified and described the metaphoric language in the selected poems, concludes that Blake is rich in using metaphors which shades more light on the concept of metaphor and serves as a guide for future researches on Stylistic Analysis of metaphors and other stylistic devices by Blake and other Poets or literary writers.