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He believes he knows because he is answering the questions he asked in the first stanza. The main difference is that the human believes he knows all the answers and that lamb is innocent and does not know the true answer to such a puzzling question. In the poem, The Tyger, the first stanza asked the question of who created the tiger. This question suggests that the tigers creator is the opposite of the lamb’s creator because he is also capable of making something so dark and dangerous. The deeper question that Blake is asking in stanza five in The Tyger is how any kind of god could create such innocent beings and such malicious creatures at the same time. The question relates to one of his favorite themes of the union of opposites as fusion of innocence and experience. The questions in The Lamb are answered while the questions in The Tyger are not. The speaker in The Lamb assures the lamb that he knows and is sure of who created him. The speaker expresses this in the last stanza and the last line reading, “Little Lamb God bless thee.” It is apparent that the question in The Tyger was never truly answered because Blake ended the poem with the same stanza as the first stanza. This technique demonstrates how Blake never fully understood how a creator could
