The majority of people believe that Romantism is connected with and limited by the topic of love. However, children`s innocence, adulthood`s corruption and nature`s beauty are also themes, the poets from the Romantic period are interested in. William Blake writes about those topics in his collections Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. Many of the poems in Songs of Innocence have corresponding poems in Songs of Experience. The first collection shows the innocent child`s outlook on the world, whereas the latter depicts the view of the experienced adult. The poems from the two collections are written on the basis of contrary states and opposites. Such is the case with the poems The Lamb and The Tyger. They complement one another and through the essence of the creator, they show the true nature of man- blend of good and evil. My goal in this paper is to compare and contrast the language used, the images and symbols, as well as to pay attention to the metamorphosis of a child into an adult and thus to prove that a man is neither only good nor only bad, but a mixture of purity and severity as "God created man in his own image" (King James Bible, Genesis 1:27).
Both poems are written in rhymed couplets and are structured like conversations with animals. The Tyger consists of six stanzas, each of them four lines long. It is "closed" by a frame, which aims to point out that the poet is equal to God. This poem is built on rhetoric questions, which make the poem sound more dynamic and as controversial as the nature of the human soul. To prove his point, William Blake uses different means of expressions. The epithets throughout the poem are contradictory, but the majority of them can be linked with darkness- symbolizing the dark side of man. On the other hand, The Lamb consists only of epithets denoting mildness and kindness. In both poems Blake uses repetition, but the purpose if opposite.
It provides humans with food, clothing, and other things humans need to survive. ... Throughout the poem the child keeps arguing with the lamb about its nature, as if to repress the lamb's self-worth. ... 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! ...
The revolutionists had been termed "tigers- by the media, and it is possible that the poem was written as a treatise on complex human nature . ... "The Tyger- consists entirely of questions relating to the nature of creation and a supreme being. ... 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. ... He reassures the reader of the gentle and benevolent nature of...
William Blake, in his two poems, "The Lamb" and "The Tyger", from Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, respectively, shows what Blake referred to as "the two contrary states of the human soul." ... The lamb emphasises a "blind faith", where the Tyger represents a skeptical doubt. ... There is an emphasise on nature and the topics emphasise belief, as opposed to scientific doubt. ... But what is more striking is the direct changes from "The Lamb" to "The Tyger". ... Newton re-established the atomic view of the nature of matter, and as such science grew. ...
The two poems, "The Lamb" and "The Tyger," both by William Blake, can be analyzed and applied in many different ways. ... The natural human draw to nature comes strongly from its purity, serenity, peacefulness and beauty. ... "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 beautiful part of nature. ... Did the God who made such b...
(line 1) This poem is also written in a unsophisticated rhyme pattern which seems to add the simplistic nature and childish tone of the poem. ... "The Tyger" is a rather different poem than "The Lamb" with images of "fire," (6) "hammer," (13) "furnaces," (14) and "spears" (17). ... Like "The Lamb," Blake opens "The Tyger" with a question in stanza one, "What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?" ... A similarity between the two poems I think that Blake seems to be suggesting that both animals exist in the human heart throughout a person's life. ... Blake's vision ...
The lamb is the voice of a child, whilst some critics believe the Tyger is a presence of evil. ... Blake also shows his contempt for the Industrial Revolution in 'The Tyger', with many references to mechanical creation, rather than the innocence of nature, shown in 'The Lamb'. ... The Lamb' is written from the perspective of a child and draws attention to natural human understanding before the corruption of experience. ... In The Tyger', Blake is building on the idea that nature must in some way contain a reflection of its creator. ... Through poems like The...
This divine savagery is presented to the reader metaphorically by comparing God, the powerful creator, to a blacksmith, while the fiery Tyger, around which the poem is centered, is the darkness of the human soul. ... Further, Blake writes: "Did he who made the Lamb make thee?" asking incredulously if it was the same God who created the innocence of human nature, represented by the Lamb, who created the Tyger. Blake finds it hard to believe that the same Supreme Being created the Tyger and the Lamb. ... Night, in these lines signifies the dark side of the human soul. ...
Both "The Lamb" (Songs of Innocence) and its contrary "The Tyger" ("Songs of Experience") invite the reader to consider God and creation in different ways. ... In "The Tyger", the poet asks the tiger what divine purpose it serves and questions how to reconcile the innocent lamb with the fearsome, awful tiger: how do we understand a God capable of creating both? ... Many of the questions raised in "The Tyger" remain unanswered and it has been argued that Blake was questioning the nature within man to illustrate our inability to understand nature, or the God who created it. ... Wordswo...
In the first stanza, Blake begins by stating "Tyger! Tyger! ... A being that can live forever contains more strength and ingenuity than any mere human being can attest to have. ... The use of "thy- is, of course, in direct reference to the Tyger. ... By giving the Tyger a "fire- in its eyes, the reader is, yet again, lead to believe the Tyger is a minion of Hell. ...
