Poetry by William Blake

The poem “The Lamb” by William Blake has a question then answer format. It is simple yet complex in that it is easy to understand, but it answers the important question of who mad you. Everyone looks for answers to this question at some point in their life. The author believes he knows the answer to that question and seems excited about it. The poem is written in a way that resembles a children’s song or rhyme. “The Lamb” is a poem that answers the question who made the lamb by describing the…

The Innocent V.S. The Experience (An Analysis of Blakes use of Archetypes in the Lamb and The Tyger) “What immortal hand or eye, dare frame thy fearful symmetry?”(Line 23-24). The poems that will be discussed are “The Lamb” and “The Tyger” both wrote by William Blake. The poem “The Lamb” is about how unmindful and innocent the lamb is. In “The Tyger” he writes about the evil about the tiger and how the tiger knows a greater extent about the world. Each of these poems show an archetype. An…

a- William Blake poem “The Tyger” is about a divine creation of an enormous animal a tiger. William Blake offers us a view of the beautiful work done by GOD by created such a powerful animal with a strong ferocity which represent the devil, as well created a humble a Lamb that represent purity and reference to Christ. b- Thesis statement: William Blake is asserting that GOD creation are representing the evil and the purity referring to the Lamb that is symbol of faith. Additionally, created the…

Life is sweet, but life is hard. In “The Tyger” and “The Lamb” by William Blake, the speaker expresses a conflicted attitude towards God and the two poems differ in their tone towards God and all of his creations. The speaker, a follower of the christian faith, creates a powerful tone through the use of diction, imagery, and repetition in “The Tyger” and “The Lamb.” Both poems have conflicting attitudes toward God, for “The Lamb” creates a confident and passionate tone while “The Tyger”…

A Tiger for Malgudi is interspersed with various incidents and characters that depict the conflict between tradition and unconventionality. The lively descriptions of villagers with their characteristic terror of the primitive man and of the tiger as “a cave-dweller and jungle beast” carry the reader back to the savage times when man’s foremost preoccupation was to save his race from utter annihilation at the hands of wild beasts. The village and the sheep are symbols of innocence and unalloyed…

childhood, the period of naivety, honesty and honor. Whereas, the experience qualifies through the journey of the human spirit, the disappointment that comes from it, the harsh reality of adulthood. “I am a child and thou a lamb.” (Book 5, 217) William Blake, portrays the dependency of a child with their parents, which can be an example of pure innocence, also…

From rereading this poem “The Tyger” by William Blake multiple times. I can see that this poem is all about him asking this majestic, beast which resembles a tiger, many different questions about it. To start off, this poem is using four quatrains which contains two rhyming couplets in each. It also contains seven syllables in each line besides for this phase “Could frame thy fearful, symmetry” which contains eight syllables in it. Here the rhyming couplets are used as a sense of repetition,…

The central idea in the poem “America” by Claude McKay is that even though America is strong and powerful in sometimes negative ways, the poet loves and respects her for those qualities. The poet’s usage of analogies contributes to the central idea of the poem by describing the harsh qualities of America. McKay compares the relationship between a citizen and America to a person having a tiger’s tooth sunken into their throat when he says “And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth, / Stealing my…

William Blake's "The Tyger" and "The Sheep" are both short ballads in which the creator offers explanatory conversation starters to what, at a first look, would have all the earmarks of being a sheep and a tiger. In both lyrics he utilizes distinctive symbolism to make particular intentions, and both ballads contain evident religious moral story. The differentiation between the two lyrics is much simpler to promptly understand: "The Sheep" was distributed in a Blake treasury entitled "The Tunes…

Good and Evil An illustrated collection of poems entitled, Songs of Innocence and of Experience, written and illustrated by William Blake shows a variety of perspectives. The innocent and pastoral world for a child pitted against a world of corruption and repression for adults. The same situation or problem is first presented through the perspective of a child and then shown from experience. The poem “The Lamb” is the counterpart for “The Tyger”, which shows two sides to the human soul: a bright…