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“Did he who made the Lamb make thee?” –William Blake, The Tyger. This line in particular turns William Blake’s poem from simple to complex. This line shows that there is two very strong sides to Blake’s thinking. Why would God create such a terrifying creature, as the tiger, when it only causes harm? In The Lamb, Blake describes God as meek and mild. However, if God is meek and mild, how could He possible create such a beast? As many read these two poems, they step back and wonder, which side do

“The Tyger” by William Blake In William Blake’s “The Tyger” the tone shifts from harsh to calm and conveys the theme of the beauty and danger shown in the tiger’s character .The narrator starts describing the tiger as just a normal tiger, but eventually his tone changes to a more calm point of view. This shows that he has more of a connection to the tiger by the end.The tiger changes from being a normal tiger to being compared to many different things, which represent what he thinks of the tiger

William Blake was one of England’s greatest writers (Tejvan) in the nineteenth century, but his brilliancy was not noticed until after he was deceased. Blake was very much a free spirit who often spoke his mind and was very sensitive to cruelty. At the age of twenty five he married a woman named Catherine Boucher. They created a book of all Blake’s poems called Songs on Innocence, which was not very popular while he was alive. On the other hand Blake’s other book of poems, Songs of Experience, were

An Analysis of William Blake’s “The Tyger” William Blake is known for two collections of poems, those collections are Songs of Innocence (1789) and it was added onto with Songs of Experience (1794). It is from those collections that he draws out his innermost thoughts on life often looking at “a being of God” or “the very human existence.” In his poem “The Tyger” he used numerous literary devices that center on divine creation ultimately putting beauty and destruction hand in hand, it does this

William Blake is an English poet, painter, and printmaker from the eighteenth century. With his unique way with words and mastery craftsmanship, he created an illustration collection of poems called Songs of Innocence and Experience in 1789. His most famous poems from Songs of Innocence and Experience are “The Lamb and The Tyger”. These poems use animals to attest to God’s role as the Creator, yet they possess contrasting tones and language of the speaker and present conflicting views of God’s power

pictures, which create a mutually reliant relationship that allows for complete understanding of Blake’s works. “To read a Blake poem without the pictures is to miss something important: that relationship is an aspect of the poem’s argument” (1452). Overall, Blake’s works in Songs of Innocence and Experience provides a greater understanding into human life. Through poetry, Blake juxtaposes the innocence of childhood with the corruption of adulthood. Thus, his work allows the reader to see situations

William Blake’s “The Tyger” and Tragedies William Blake wrote a set of poems in his collection Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. Some of the poems in each collection were meant to be read together to show the difference between innocence and experience. Many people question why Blake wrote a two part series to his poems and what they could actually mean. Two specific poems, “The Lamb” and “The Tyger,” were meant to be read together. “The Lamb” is a part of Blake’s Songs of Innocence and

“London”, “Holy Thursday”, “The Lamb”, “The Tyger”, “The Nurse’s Song”, and “The Little Black Boy” are all written by William Blake. His two main collection of his poetry are Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. “The Lamb”, “The Nurse’s Song”, and “The Little Black Boy” belong to the collection of Song of Innocence because of the theme of happiness. “The Tyger”, “London”, and “Holy Thursday” belong to the collection of Songs of Experience because of the theme of darkness. The collection

Through out time, young sheep have always been described as pure, tender, and innocent. Even in the Holy Bible, lambs are talked about in such high honor that they were even used to be holy sacrifices during biblical times. William Blake describes the young sheep in similar characteristics in the poem “The Lamb” and “The Tyger”. A tiger as we know its characteristics to be is fierce and mysterious. Always lurking around, waiting for the perfect opportunity to strike. In William Blake’s two separate

good God can create evil. The author, William Blake, wrote a series of