William Blake
...ts perspective. Many of the poems deal with innocent aspects of the human experience prior to the fall of man or the corruption of experience. “Songs of Experience” works parallel to the “Songs of Innocence”, contrasting the harsh reality of the fallen world which has destroyed that which is pure and good in innocence. With many of Blake’s poems the style is extremely direct and simple, while the ideas he explores in the poems are deceptively complex. The main question that Blake is asking in the two poems “The Tyger” and “The Lamb” are how can a God create such a vicious animal like the tiger and also create such a delicate animal like the lamb. “The Tyger” and “The Lamb” are both poems about the nature of creation, but each from a different light. “The Lamb” takes a very innocent approach where the creator is kind and good, and there is absolutely no doubt about it. “The Tyger” take a more knowledgably approach where he asks more questions and does not believe at first that the creator is good. The two poems are meant to be interpreted in comparison and contrast to one another, showing the two contrary states of the human soul with respect to the creation. The open-ended awe of “The Tyger” contrast with the easy confidence of a child’s innocent faith in “The Lamb. Blake’s poem “The Lamb” begins with the speaker, a child, questioning,? “Little Lamb, who made thee?” The child asks the lamb where is came from and how is came to be. The speaker wonders who gave the lamb life, how it acquired its clothing of wool and its tender voice. The speakers is very naïve and simple in his questioning. He is not concerned with presence of suffering and evil in the world, all he seems concerned with is...