The two sets of poems may clash together in terms of their perspective, but Blake found it necessary to marry to two in hope of reaching a state of higher, or organized innocence. ... The framing of these lines give the sense of impending danger, thought, experience and that possibly evil is inherent in all good things, even in seemingly nave, hopeful poetry. ...
How does Blake's poetry comment on Urizen's longings? The Urizenic ideology of immutability is what Blake seeks to subvert and destroy throughout his poetry. ... It is also reminiscent of the fear of the Industrial Revolution which was prevalent in poetry in Blake's time. ...
The poems are presentations of a contradiction between innocence and experience, two areas of life through which we all must pass and are, in initial appearance at least, very similar to the genre of late eighteenth-century children's poetry, in terms of theme, title and simplicity. ...
Before we jump into the 'The Tyger' and 'The Lamb,' let's discuss the larger bodies of work the poems belong to. In 1789, William Blake printed a collection of nineteen poems called "Songs of Innocence" (which contained 'The Lamb'). Five years later, in 1794, Blake printed a collection of twenty-six...
