Many of the poems in Songs of Innocence have corresponding poems in Songs of Experience. ... Such is the case with the poems The Lamb and The Tyger. ... This poem is built on rhetoric questions, which make the poem sound more dynamic and as controversial as the nature of the human soul. ... So the reference to Milton`s Paradise Lost that opens the fifth stanza emphasis on the devil`s nature of humans. ... "The pastoral paradise of The Lamb is juxtaposed with the industrial furnace of The Tyger" (Vines 117). ...

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