The simplest way to describe The Lamb is that it is prelapsarian, that is to say, life before the fall. This lies mostly in the voice of the poem, which closely resembles that of a child. Blake’s diction reveals this with words such as “little.” “life,” “softest,” “tender,” “lamb,” and obviously, “child.” The speaker is talking r

Since The Lamb represented a prelapsarian life, The Tyger represents the postlapsarian life. Blake gives the answer away in four stanzas. He talks about Prometheus in stanza two: “On what wings dare he aspire?/What that hand, dare seize the fire?” (2.3-4).This is referencing Greek mythology, which is nowhere near the beliefs of Christianity or God. Stanzas three and four discuss the Industrial Revolution and the horror of the modern world. This is the speaker, and possibly Blake’s fear of nature’s end. The penultimate stanza discusses the war in heaven between the angels, which came after the fall of man. The speaker can be looked at as utterly critical or cynical with all of its questions, but they act more as a Prophet or companion to the child in The Lamb. Amid all this terror the most revealing and startling lines are, “Did he smile his work to see?/Did he who made the Lamb make thee?” God is put into question. The speaker is asking God if he is proud of all the destruction he foresaw and allowed to happen. The speaker also asks if something so pure like the lamb and child can be made, then how can such wickedness come from humans? This reveals that inherent in good there is evil and that the two cannot exist without the other. This is not to say that Blake himself believes there is only good and evil.

ather simplistically to a lamb that most likely does not wonder where it came from or who created it; however, talking to lamb is a way for the child to remember where it came from, where all things come from.

For a poem written in iambic tetrameter and anapestic trimeter the poem does openly reveal its tone while keeping its purity with the rhyming couplets. Both poems are similar in this respect as well as the face they both incorporate framing techniques as if to hide internal meaning. The insanity of the postlapsarian life is realized through several experiences and several syllabic variations that include anapests, dactyls, amphimacers and trochees.

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