The Lamb And The Tyger By William Blake

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William Blake wrote two great pieces of work that expressed his thoughts on the nature of creation. The two pieces, The Lamb and The Tyger, are totally opposite and have different views, which give controvertible doubt about most people's perspective of engenderment. These two poems are meant to be interpreted in a comparison and contrast. Both poems have a similar theme and style, they also both question the Christian religion. Conspicuously Blake believes that good and evil are in God and that depending on the situation its good to be a tiger or may be good to be a lamb. These poems were said to show a child's outlook on the world eager and innocent. The speaker in "The Lamb" starts off with a child. The child addresses the lamb and asks, …show more content…

This very is much more aggressive starting with title. It is the darker side of the creation idea and there are less joys involved. The most important theme professed is the author’s questioning of God’s character and the existence of evil. The first lines of the poem begin with Tyger!! Tyger, burning bright In the forests of the night," (1-2) addressing the poem and is creating a chant sounding mood. Blake was using outstanding metaphors to describe the appetence of the tiger. "burning bright" could have been describing the bright orange color of the tiger's fur. the next line "In the forests of the night" leaves the reader with mysterious thoughts about the power the tiger might have. The next lines introduce the main question of the poem. "What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?" (3-4). After the fist stanza, majority of the poem is full of questions. The speaker mainly wants to know who made the tiger, how was the tiger the made, where, why, and what was the person who made you like? There are not any big movements in "The Tyger". The only thing that occurs is the speaker asking the tiger questions. At the end the poem the same questions are restated that were stated in the beginning lifting the states of the

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