A Critical Analysis Of William Blake's Songs Of Innocence?

The acclaimed poet and artist William Blake is from London where he begins his career as an artist and a painter. He lives most of his life in extreme poverty, although his works are recognized as valuable within his lifetime. His Christian theology begins to form at the date of his little brother’s sudden death from consumption. Blake claims he sees his brother’s spirit rise from his corpse, clapping and dancing with joy. Shortly after this event, Blake begins to work on his acclaimed publication Songs of Innocence which contains the poem The Lamb. This manuscript was shortly followed by what many consider to be the appropriate addition to Blake’s Songs of Innocence; titled Songs of Experience. Closely comparable with The Lamb is the poem The Tyger. William Blake goes from using soft, feminine language in The Lamb to a hard, masculine

He begins with an intense question to the tiger; “What immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry?” (731.2)His purpose in doing this is to introduce his theme for the poem, each following stanza serves to elaborate on this conception of the idea that nature, similar to a work of art, will reflect its creator, in this case; God. The formation of this existential query is closely intertwined with Blake’s personal spiritual journey throughout the five years between the publication dates of the two manuscripts. Blake chooses the subject of the poem to be a tiger, he does this because a tiger has a remarkable nature that encompasses the beautiful and yet terrifying capacity of destructiveness innately, which serves as the perfect platform for Blake to compare the “fearful symmetry” (731.4) of a tiger as a symbol of the investigation Blake is making into the presence of evil in a world that is supposedly created by an all-perfect spiritual