The Lamb and The Tyger by William Blake

Many authors in the Romantics time period enjoyed using imagination. Their ideas were new and different compared to older ones while being written for basically everyone to understand. These poets and writers also usually had a deeper meaning within their simple poems and this was to make people think about what was being said. Although they are not the first to do something like this the romantic poets are most known for this idea of seeing the double meaning so to speak. Each poem when it’s meaning is revealed usually has a deep and important meaning. Some writers reveal their most inner thoughts within their poetry. For example in The Lamb and The Tyger by William Blake his idea that there are two different types of people in this world yet we need both for balance. His next poem The Chimney Sweeper has many hidden meaning within his poem about his views on society. Then he goes on in his poem titled Infant Sorrow to reveal his thoughts on non-conformists. William Blake makes a different criticism of society in his four poems The Lamb, The Tyger, The Chimney Sweeper and Infant Sorrow.

To begin, William Blake uses his poems The Lamb and The Tyger to point out flaws of society, but also to show the importance of balance. In these two poems basically William Blake says that there are two types of people a lamb which is nice and timid: and a tiger which is mean and awful. He shows that the lamb is nice and innocent on page 748 lines 14-17, “For he calls himself a Lamb: He is meek & he is mild, He became a little child: I a child & and thou a lamb.” He says that the lamb is meek and mild which represents those people in this world that don’t mean any harm to others and try to make everyone happy. In The Tyger he says, “Burn the...

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...r conformist or non-conformist from the moment we are born. Yet some may argue that we can change the older we get we can go from being a conformist to a rebel of society or vice versa.

In conclusion, William Blake did indeed see many things wrong with the society of his time. The first was that there are lambs and tigers: why would anyone want an evil tiger in the world, yet what would we do without that evil tiger to create balance. Another was that many people don’t see what they are doing to negatively influence young children. The final was that idea of a rebel without a cause and a simple person who follows all the rules of society. Overall, some of these problems William Blake pointed out with society still exist today.

Works Cited

The Lamb by William Blake

The Tyger by William Blake

The Chimney Sweeper by William Blake

Infant Sorrow by William Blake