During the first stanza, Blake also seems to be comparing the lamb to an innocent child. .
Throughout the second stanza this comparison between an innocent child and a lamb continues and expands to comparing the Lamb to a Christ or god-like figure while keeping the child-like mentality. This idea is supported by these lines, "He is called by thy name, / For he calls himself a Lamb; / He is meek and he is mild, / He became a little child" (13-16). The Lamb and the child, are both symbols of Jesus Christ and of the innocence that is classically assigned to both figures from the thresh-holds of society. The lamb is another name for God as shown throughout many scriptures in the Bible. The language of this poem is filled with mellow and soft words such as, "life," (3) "stream," (5) "bright" (6) and "rejoice" (8). This innocence though, is prominently remembered just after it is lost. Like a deceased loved one, innocence is lost once and forever. .
The joyful happiness of a child's blind faith is opposed in "The Tyger" which appears in the Songs of Experience. "The Tyger" is a rather different poem than "The Lamb" with images of "fire," (6) "hammer," (13) "furnaces," (14) and "spears" (17). Both creatures, the lamb and the tiger, question their creator. Like "The Lamb," Blake opens "The Tyger" with a question in stanza one, "What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?" (4) In other words, Blake is asking "Who made you?" I think that Blake asks this question because he wants to know if God actually made both a beast and .
an innocent creature, which are perceived to be opposites of each other. As contrary to the Lamb, Blake seems to ask the question of the creator a little differently and seems to leave the question unanswered. .
Throughout "The Tyger" the lines are regular and rhyming, but unlike "The Lamb" the rhythm of the poem is heavy as well as harder consonant sounds, in words such as "burning," (1) "bright," (1) "brain," (14) "dread," (15) "dare," (16) "deadly," (16) and "terrors" (16).
Before we jump into the 'The Tyger' and 'The Lamb,' let's discuss the larger bodies of work the poems belong to. ... Blake's "The Tyger" is the contrast poem to "The Lamb". "The Tyger" is the experience of the loss of innocence that "The Lamb" seems to personify. ... "Tyger! Tyger! ...
The Tyger signifies a duel purpose in this poem. ... The Tyger may very well be the image of God that man has twisted and conformed to fit into the experienced world society has become, and by this event, He is no longer one with man as He was in the Lamb. ... The Tyger(Songs of Experience) Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry In what distant deeps or skies. ... Tyger Tyger burning bright, In the forests of the night: What immortal hand or eye, Dare frame thy fearful symmetry! The Lam...
Blake discusses that the creator of the lamb also calls Himself a Lamb. ... The poem begins with the opening hurdle of metaphor, "Tyger Tyger, burning bright-. ... "The Lamb- and "The Tyger- are the two contrary poems, which when first read, form an instant link in the reader's mind. ... The lamb is an emblem of innocence, corresponding to the tyger as the emblem of experience. The two contrary states of the human soul expressed in the subtitle of Songs of Innocence and Experience are nicely embodied in the ideas of these two animals - the lamb and the tyger. ...
The lamb emphasises a "blind faith", where the Tyger represents a skeptical doubt. ... In "The Tyger" this imagery is completely discarded, the meek and mild lamb, is replaced with a raging force of danger and chaos. ... But what is more striking is the direct changes from "The Lamb" to "The Tyger". ... The utopia of Jerusalem is lost from "The Lamb" to "The Tyger" and converted into a much grimmer imagery, suggesting that experience like the imagery in the Tyger is both dangerous and destructive. ... And this was often the turning point from innocence to experience, or from "The Lamb", to...
"The Lamb" and "The Tyger" are two animals created by and immortal being and both of the, have to coexist with one another on this planet. ... In the poem "The Lamb" the main method used throughout the poem is the use of answers and questions directed and the lamb. ... In the poem "The Tyger" the same method of answers and questions are used but this time they are toward the Tyger. ... The connection I drew between the two poems is that they talk about the creation of the beasts the Lamb and the Tyger. ... The Lamb is soft, pretty, and a prey while the Tyger is fearful, dreadful, and a pr...
Tyger! ... The writing style makes it seem the Lamb grew up and became the Tyger. Let us take a look at the two books of poems that The Lamb and The Tyger came from. ... I believe that the Tyger is the Lamb experienced and all grown up. ... (Norton, 54) The final line of The Tyger would then not the first question of the poem repeated, but a question asking who warped the gentle lamb into the form that of a freighting Tyger. ...
Interpretation: "The Tyger" This poem is from Songs of Experience, so the generally accepted symbolism of it is that the Tyger represents experience and the Lamb innocence. However, other interpretations state that the Tyger represents the sensual and the Lamb the sensuous, another that the Tyger represents, "the Body," and the Lamb, "the Soul." Another interpretation goes so far, as to say, that the Tyger represents the physical world, and the Lamb the spiritual. ... The Tyger is beautiful, but at the same time fierce and terrible, with "fearful symmetry." ... Blake wonders what kind of c...
"THE LAMB" and "THE TYGER" In both poems, the speaker asks them by their origins. In The Lamb we get an answer, but it does not occur in The tyger, although this last poem is longer we do not have an explicit answer. We have in both poems the adjective "bright" in their description but expresses different things: in The Lamb, the animal is described as "wooly bright", which means tenderness; in the tyger is "burning bright", which is a rough definition. In The Lamb the author is identified as a child. ... In The Tyger the predominant feeling is surprise, admiration, fear (awe). ...
The two poems, "The Lamb" and "The Tyger," both by William Blake, can be analyzed and applied in many different ways. ... Later in the poem, Blake compares the lamb with Jesus Christ, The son of the Father whom himself created the lamb, and all that is beautiful and innocent. ... "The Tyger", in strong contrast to "The Lamb," is mysterious and malevolent, offering hints of destruction and doom. The opening lines of the poem "Tyger, Tyger burning bright, In the forests of the night," shows early on in the poem that this "tiger" is capable of destroying the forests, which themselves are a bea...
