The Ghost Song of Jim Morrison is a very modern way of thinking about William Blake’s themes in the Song of Innocence. In the collection of these poems, Blake uses the two themes very well: nature and innocence. The former he describes through the use of good imagery and figure of speech, the latter he portrays through the perspective of children. The Ghost Song is a good example where these two themes are brought together in the modern sense through the use of a very different means of art other than literature, which is: music.
The song embodies one of the major themes that Blake uses in his poems: nature. The song begins with dreams and goes on to talk about the beauty of the moon and the forest and how it gives a person the sense of sweetness and calmness. The description of the moon being ‘cool’ and ‘jeweled’ and allowing the children to ‘run around free’ paints a picture of a natural atmosphere where one would find the solitude that he has been looking for. The single word used to describe the lake: ancient relates many contexts. The lake is an established part of nature as having gone through many generations and many natural courses. The forest, although a place for wild and even potentially dangerous animals is described as being sweet. This allows the reader to gain sympathy where the forest seems a charming place to spend time and clear one’s thoughts. The Blakean poems, similarly, are known for its pastoral background, where the speaker lies on the moors or under the trees, or where a lamb feed on the green grass. The coherence of nature and the solitude that this coherence gives can also be seen in the way the background is explained in the first lines of the song.