Compare And Contrast The Lamb And The Tiger

According to Blake this creature has a special "inner" source of energy which distinguishes its existence from the cold and dark world of inanimate things (Blake 3). There is also an essence of the devil in the tiger. William Blake points this out by using words like furnace and just by him picking a tiger. There are many other violent predators out in the jungle but he chose the tiger because of its bright orange and black. When it runs it looks like a fireball. In line twenty of "The Tyger," William Blake says, "Did He who make the lamb make thee?" (Blake 539). What he is wondering is if he made such an innocent creature like the lamb how could he make a beast like the tiger?

In “The Lamb” by William Blake, you will see that, if analyzed closely, the lamb is a personal symbol which signifies God himself. The innocence of a child is like that of a lamb, and serves as a model for humans to follow. In the first stanza, the speaker is the child who is also the teacher. The child asks the lamb who gave him life and all his needs, along with a voice so "tender”. Then, the child declares that he will tell the lamb who their creator is. The creator shares the same name as the lamb, which is a reference to Jesus Christ. The end of the poem is giving way to a blessing which, gives an expression of the child’s adoration at the connection the lamb makes in child,

The characteristics of The Lamb of God is meek and mild. The temperment of the little lamb would also share these character traits. The speaker next relates himself, as a child, to this trait of innocence. The Lamb of God was also a child, He is God incarnated, born of a virgin. The next line; “We are called by his name.” implys that wer are all called by his name. We are his flock and his creation. The poem is then finished with the speaker telling the little lamb, “Little Lamb God bless thee.”

Blake wanted people to read this poem and understand his concept of questioning God, for how could God make something so innocent and pure as the Lamb and then in turn make something so evil? The situation is very similar to the

In order to exist in nature and in human, innocence requires experience. The author, William Blake divided his poems into two volumes which are Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. “The Lamb” is the poem from Songs of Innocence and “The Tyger” is from Songs of Experience. In “The Lamb,” Blake writes in an incomplex, childlike way asking an innocent lamb who made it. In “The Tyger,” Blake asks who could have possibly made something as formidable as the tiger. William Blake uses archetypes in his poems “The Lamb” and “The Tyger.”

The Lamb is a poem of innocence, I came to this conclusion by the fact that a lamb possesses a virtue of pureness and kindness. You aren't ever warned about being around a lamb and having to watch your back because of the possibility of it attacking you. Another thing that had caught my eye with the Lamb is that all lambs have white fleece and white is a symbol of purity and nothing has corrupted this creature. On page 748 line 16 “He became a little child” Blake compares the lamb to a child and what could be more innocent

William Blake was a forerunner in the world of poetry in the 18th century that produced works that are being studied to this day. Along with many other greats; poets, artists, and musicians, Blake did not receive the recognition deserved to him until after his death. Many of these poems written by Blake are ordinarily focused on religion while heavily influenced by his imagination. The impact of his imagination in addition to his focus on religion is evident in his work “The Lamb” as well as The Tyger”. “The Lamb” is a poem about a child who is asking the lamb about his creator, then asks if the lamb is aware of his identity. The child already knows the identity which leads to the end of the poem. This poem comes from an album called Songs

William Blake’s “The Lamb” aims to show an innocent way of looking at the world. The narrator of “The Lamb” is asking if the lamb knows who made it, and does so in a way that suggests that whomever created the lamb is kind, and loves their creation. “Gave thee life…bid thee feed…clothing of delight…” These things, when seen from the side of innocence, seem to be gifts to the lamb; things its creator blessed it with. However, the narrator fails to see a lot of the meaning that their own words have. The lamb was given life and fed well so that it could grow and be killed for food later. The narrator states that the lamb’s creator, Jesus, also is called a lamb, “for he is meek and mild”, but fails to see why such a comparison was made between

However, as the narrator continues to talk about what type of entity would have the ability to create such a Tyger in quatrain three, the reader interprets that the Tyger possesses more dangerous qualities than good. In quatrain four, the narrator makes another possible allusion to the Bible in the first line, “When the stars threw down their spears,” (line 17) by comparing the stars to angels and God and their spears to Satan, this line could be alluding to Satan being shunned from heaven. Following that, the narrator says, “Did he who made the Lamb make thee?” (line 20) which not only alludes to the Bible once again, but a previous poem of Blake’s, as well. Blake could be referring to God making the Lamb, and returning to the question of whether the Tyger’s creation was holy or not. (There is also a parallel with Frankenstein when the speaker says, “Did he smile his work to see?” (line 19) because it is being questioned whether or not the creator was proud of his work, much like when Frankenstein finishes his creation and is

In the poem, "The Lamb," from Songs of Innocence, William Blake asks the little lamb, "Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost

The poem begins with the question, "Little Lamb, who made thee?" The speaker, a child, asks the lamb about its origins: how it came into being, how it acquired its particular manner of feeding, its "clothing" of wool, its "tender voice." In the next stanza, the speaker attempts a riddling answer to his own question: the lamb was made by one who "calls himself a Lamb," one who resembles in his gentleness both the child and the lamb. The poem ends with the child bestowing a blessing on the lamb.

“The Lamb” is one of William Blake’s famous poems from his book Songs of Innocence published in 1789. “The Lamb” is also known as “Little Lamb” but better known by the former name. This poem is a didactic poem reflecting spirituality from a Christian point of view. “The Lamb” is a question and an answer type of poem and has a sense of innocence as the speaker is a child questioning a lamb’s existence. In “The Lamb” William Blake uses metaphor, symbolism and imagery to express Jesus Christ and His relationship with the world.

In the eighteenth century, the Enlightenment began and caused a shift in what people believed. Before the Enlightenment, organized religion like Catholicism controlled Europe, until many philosophers came up with new ideas that threatened religion itself. William Blake, although he did not believe in the concept of organized religion, condemned many Enlightenment thinkers. In “Songs of Innocence,” Blake’s poem “The Lamb” is a poem about questions that all people have, especially children. It is about a child asking questions about where they came from, who created them, and what their purpose is. In the second stanza, the answer is given that they are a child of the Lamb and are a lamb themselves. Although the poem may it first be viewed as promoting religion, deeper analysis shows that it is more about

In this essay I am going to use different dimensions from different types of poems explaining songs of innocence and songs of experience. Every poem written has a different component of innocence and experience. I will lastly draw my knowledge of what has informed Blake’s poems.

Some of William Blake’s poetry is categorized into collections called Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. Blake explores almost opposite opinions about creation in his poems “The Lamb” and “The Tiger.” While the overarching concept is the same in both, he uses different subjects to portray different sides of creation; however, in the Innocence and Experience versions of “The Chimney Sweeper,” Blake uses some of the same words, rhyme schemes, and characters to talk about a single subject in opposite tones.