Final answer:
In 'The Chimney Sweeper' from Songs of Experience, William Blake uses darker, monochromatic imagery to depict experience, contrasting it with the absent bright colors one might associate with innocence, thus making choice (d) Experience is portrayed as monochrome the most accurate.
Step-by-step explanation:
In William Blake's "The Chimney Sweeper" from Songs of Experience, colors play a significant role in contrasting innocence and experience. Blake does not employ colors traditionally linked to innocence, such as brightness or vibrancy. Instead, he depicts experience as associated with darker, more monochromatic imagery, and in doing so, underscores the bleak reality of the child chimney sweepers who have lost their innocence to the corrupting forces of society and industry. While he does not specifically attribute a color to innocence in this poem, by contrast, the dark, grim imagery used to represent experience highlights the absence of the bright, cheerful colors one might associate with childhood innocence.
Examining other Blake poems or artwork like the accompanying illustrations for his poems might reveal the use of vibrant colors, but in "The Chimney Sweeper", when discussing experience, Blake's colors suggest a loss of innocence and the prevalence of suffering. Poems like "London" from Songs of Experience also use color to signify the harsh realities of the world in contrast to the innocence depicted in the companion volume, Songs of Innocence.
Thus, answer choice (d) Experience is portrayed as monochrome most accurately reflects how Blake uses colors to suggest innocence and experience in "The Chimney Sweeper" (Songs of Experience).