The Tyger William Blake Analysis

Compare and Contrast “The Lamb” and “The Tyger” “The Lamb” and “The Tyger” are written by William Blake. These were his two famous poetry in his collection. The difference between these two poems is that each poem belong to two different poetry of Blake’s collection. Two biggest collection of poetry from William Blake are the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. The Songs of Innocence are poetries that have happy poems like the poem “The Lamb.” The Songs of Experience are poetries that have poems that are dark and sad like the poem “The Tyger.” The purpose of the essay is to compare and contrast “The Lamb” and “The Tyger.” The difference between these two poems is that “The Lamb” ask a question and its answer, and the poem “The Tyger” a question is ask but it’s never answer. “The Lamb” has to be one of the simplest poem from Blake. The lamb symbolizes …show more content…
“The Tyger” was a poem that had to do with darkness. For example, the poem was referring to the animal the tiger, and we all know that the tiger is a wild animal. A tiger is an animal that can be mean and evil, and the poem “The Tyger” was meant to be evil. We the readers would never know because in the poem a question was asked but never answer. The question was “What kind of immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?” (Blake). In that question Blake was referring to God because God can create something beautiful but also fearful. The readers would not know if it was God who made the animal the tiger. There was another question that said, “Did he smile his work to see? / Did he who made the Lamb made thee?”(Blake). Blake was also referring to God because in the poem “The Lamb”, God was present and he was the one that made the Lamb. In the last stanza the question was ask again “What kind of immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful and symmetry?”(Blake), so the question will never be