Predator and Prey as One (Tyger Tyger)

In the poem The Lamb, the Lamb is described as having “…clothing of delight/Softest clothing of wooly bright.” (Norton, 45) The Tyger from the poem of the same name on the other hand is described as not only having “fearful symmetry,” but, in Blake’s first draft of T

To begin with let us take a look at the writing style Blake uses in The Lamb. The writing style is quite simple, child-like, and pure if you will. Blake’s writing style for The Tyger however is not. The writing style of The Tyger is more dark, questioning, and adult-like. The writing style makes it seem the Lamb grew up and became the Tyger.

“I a child & thou a lamb,”(Norton, 45) According to this line, a child is writing a poem. A span of five years is enough time for a person to grow and move on. Five years is more than enough time for someone to become more experience and jaded. I believe that the Tyger is the Lamb experienced and all grown up. So grown up in fact that the author could not recognize the lamb until he started to ask the same questions that he asked of the lamb. Then, in what I believe to be more of realization than a question, the author ask

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