Draw comparison between William Blake’s “The Lamb” and “The Tyger”

Draw comparison between William Blake’s “The Lamb” and “The Tyger”

            In William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, he creates a series of poems that contrast one another such as “The Lamb” which describes an innocent, child-like view of the world and “The Tyger” which describes a more mature world-view. In Blake’s poem “The Lamb,” he has an innocent child speaking to a lamb about God and the wondrous gift of life that the lamb has received and how the Son of God is also called a Lamb (Blake 120 Line 14). Blake uses this innocent and joyous conversation to portray the infinite goodness of God as seen through the worshipful eyes of a child. In contrast, Blake’s poem entitled “The Tyger” is questioning why the God who made the gentle lamb would also make such a ferocious creature as the Tyger (Blake 130 Line 20). Instead of the stated assurance of the child in “The Lamb,” “The Tyger” is a constant questioning with no hints of the innocence in the previous poem. The speaker of “The Tyger” is more mature in the words picked to describe the Tyger while the word choice in “The Lamb” is more artless. The differences in William Blake’s “The Lamb” and “The Tyger” are shown by the innocent child speaker in “The Lamb” and the more mature speaker in “The Tyger” in which contrasting techniques are used to juxtapose the two poems: the simpler sentence structure used in “The Lamb” and the more complicated rhetorical questions used in “The Tyger”; the ingenuous word choices in “The Lamb” and the more sophisticated ones in “The Tyger”; and the literal assurance of the child in “The Lamb” that God is the Creator and the lack of an answer for a creator in “The Tyger.” “The Lamb” is indeed a Song of Innocence while “The Tyger” is a Song of Experience.............................................................

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