In the poem “The Angel” by William Blake, the speaker describes a dream where he is a maiden guarded by an angel. The angel comforts her while she cries over her love for the angel, unknown to him because she says she “hid from him my hearts delight” on line eight. The angel then leaves and the maiden collects herself, arming her fears “with ten thousand shields and spears” on line twelve. The arming of her fears means she is giving her fears power, which distances herself from the angel. By the end of the poem the Angel comes back “in vain” on line fourteen because he sees how old she’s grown. What she feared; growing old and remaining unmarried, gives her something to fend the angel off with, whether she wants to or not. Blake’s drawings change the depiction of the poem through the way he colors the maiden, the angel, and the background. Some maidens look younger like the maiden depicted at the  beginning of the poem, and some maidens look older like the maiden depicted at the end of the poem. For example, Copy T shows the maiden with golden hair and red hues in her face that make her look younger. Copy L shows the maiden with grey hair, making her look older. This copy also has a sky painted like the morning scene in the third stanza with red hues. Archives change the way we read poems because they allows us to see the artist’s creative process and uncover different meanings to poems depending on how the artist chooses to represent the poem. Archives allow us to see multiple forms of the same poem at once and create a community where we can talk about their different meanings.