Another sign in the poem could be the word bright, "Softest clothing, wooly, bright". The word bright in "The Tyger" was used to bring out the power that the tiger has and it was used to describe the fierceness of the tiger. In "The Lamb" the brightness of the lamb is one of purity itself, "The effect of bright in "The Lamb" is less dramatic. ... Burning bring in the forests of the night," (Blake 1) the reader conceives in their mind the image of a tiger with a coat blazing like fire deep in the dark forest. ...

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Blake personifies the lamb as a naive animal that is pure like its "softest clothing wooly, bright,"" and has a "tender voice-. ... The poem begins with the opening hurdle of metaphor, "Tyger Tyger, burning bright-. ...

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Tom, an innocent child, shares his dreams of angels and the salvation of the sweeps: "And by came an angel who had a bright key, And he open'd the coffins & set them all free;" This sort of social consciousness in literature, stimulated by the French Revolution, also allows Blake to show in the second poem, through an experienced narrator, the true plight of child laborers: "Crying'weep! ... Words such as burning, fire, dread, hammer, furnace, and terrors is used by Blake in this poem so that any person reading that has a most basic concept of the biblical heaven and hell will recog...

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