The comparison of Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience
... fierce nocturnal Tyger of Experience. The Lamb: It deals with the figure of Jesus. The first verse begins with a question: “Little Lamb, who made thee?” The second verse alludes to the divine answer: “Little Lamb, I’ll tell thee…/ He is called by they name…/ He became a little child…” The answer is the Infant Jesus, the child and lamb are also the spirit of Innocence. The Tyger: It is the antithesis of “The Lamb.” It describes the Tyger in wrath and fearsomeness. In the verse, “Did he smile his work to see?/ Did he who made the lamb make thee?” We can compare to “ The Lamb,” and know that did God create as well as the Lamb of Innocence the Tyger of Experience? Is the Tyger a symbol of God’s anger? I think, at the last of the verse, it questions and leaves the answer to the reader. Blake’s vision of Innocence is the original state of happiness and spontaneous joy of childhood in which the imagination is totally free. However, the free and joyous love of children is destroyed ...