Sunday, November 11, 2012

This first obvious aspect of William Blake's Poem "The Lamb" and "The Tyger" are two animals. One tiger or "tyger" and one lamb The lamb presumably lives in a peaceful environment, however; the person questioning the lamb is none other than a child. What a child would do is continuously repeat a question as Blake wrote in his poem. For instance, the child asks two questions twice: Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know made thee? As for the Tyger, the tyger lives in a hostile environement, and questions what is the tyger's divine right on this earth god created. The speaker asks questions such as "What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearlful symmetry" (796). Both speakers are innocent, curious and questionable of the animals existence; why god would create two different animals; one of hostility and the other of tenderness. Furthermore, the imagery supports the contrasting environments between the poems. In the lamb, blake illustrates a settle environment.
                                                  "Gave thee life & bid thee feed?
                                                     By the stream & o'er mead
                                                    Gave thee clothing of delight" (682).
In the tyger, Blake illustrates a hostile environment.
                                                      " In what distant deeps or skies
                                                        Burnt the fire of thine eyes"
In conclusion, Blake's poem's conveys the bright side of nature as to the dark. It's a question of religious belief's whether the beliefs are catholic or protestant. Or even spiritual. It's a question of morals and a person's innocence being question when facing such creations God made.
                                                       







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