Comparing William Blakes The Tyger and The Lamb Essay -- The Tyger Th

Comparing William Blakes The Tyger and The birthWilliam Blake is referred to as many things, including poet, engraver,painter and mystic, but he is belike most famous for his poetry.Blake began writing the poems below in about 1790 whilst living inLambeth, London. His poetry has a wide range of styles but his mostfamous poems are those from Songs of sinlessness and Song ofExperience. The two sets of poems are designed to show differentstates or ways of seeing. They are Blakes way of representing thedifferent ways in which people actually experience the world. InSongs of Innocence the language is simple and repetitive, the linesare kept short and the rhymes are obvious. A childlike flock isconveyed through Blakes clever use of voices with their varyingperspectives and questions. The poems reveal particular states ofbeing and ways of seeing which the author is not saying are the wholetruth. The poems draw a joyful quality but they contain a subtleawareness of sorrow. Songs of Ex perience contrasts strongly with thesoftness of Songs of Innocence. These poems show how horrible and cruel the world really is under the surface of what we see.Blake has many themes represented in his poems from Song of Experienceand Songs of Innocence but they mainly centre on his childhood, theaspects of outlandish and urban bearing, his protest against the horrible wayof life and a strong disliking to the way the Church was run. Thesepoints will be discussed in the next poem analyses.The Tyger and The Lamb are often 2 poems paired together and I thinkthat was Blakes intention, for example line 20 of The Tyger it says Did he who made the Lamb make thee?So these will be the first t... ...oem. There are many harshwords such as cold used to describe the church as it is but when hedescribes what he wants it to be the feeling of the poem becomeswarmer, like that of a poem in Song of Innocence.From these poems I believed that what Blake means by Innocence isthat of a simple life whe re you dont know about the troubles aroundyou and blissfully go along with life as it hits you.And from this, Experience is what life is really life, itconcentrates on the negative sides of things and shows that there isalways an improvement to be made.I personally find Blakes poems rather intriguing. At first when you look atone of two poems it is hard to understand the ideas that blake putsforward but after many poem analyses it becomes clear of thedifference between Innocence and Experience. Blake must incur been avery conscious man.