Question

Write a note on poetic style of "the lamb and the tyger".

Answer 1

Both 'The Lamb' and 'The Tyger' are ruminations on the Nature of God. While 'The Lamb' is a part of Blake's Songs of Innocence, 'The Tyger' belongs to his Songs of Experience. The Lamb is written in a simplistic manner with straightforward images, and compared to the innocence of Infant Jesus. The poet repeatedly asks the lamb, 'Little lamb who made thee?' , referring to the docile animal as the image of God himself. The Tyger, on the other hand is written with jarring and malevolent images. The question that arises here is how the same God, which has created the innocent lamb, could also have created the dangerous tiger. The tiger is described to have been fashioned in a smithy, beaten and burned to shape it's dangerous claws and fangs.