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‘The Tiger’ and ‘The Lamb’
Thesis Statement
It is hard to comprehend God’s mind and the complexity of His work in creating a lamb differently from a tiger.
Introduction
‘The Lamb’ and ‘The Tiger’ are two poems written by one author known as William Blake. Both of these poems fall into his collection known as the “Songs of Innocence.” ‘The Tiger’ was originally published in the “Songs of Experience” collection in 1794 by the name ‘The Tyger.’ ‘The Lamb,’ on the hand, was published earlier in the collection “Songs of Innocence” in 1789. However, modern anthologies printed the two poems together in the “Songs of Innocence” collection (Glancy 113). The two poems show two diverse ways of seeing things, which raises several unresolved question. Blake represents two different ways in which people experience the world: the sensitive side and the insensitive side. The lamb is used to represent humbleness and innocence, while the tiger represents harsh, tainted, and brutal. The author uses the two animals to express the nature of humanity; how people change from the innocent children that God created to the tainted and resentful people. This paper compares and contrasts the two poems: ‘The lamb’ and ‘The Tiger.’
Similarities and Differences between ‘The Lamb’ and ‘The Tiger’
Both poems use an aspect of addressing the readers directly even though the reader does not directly hear the poets’ voices. The expressions serve as an avenue of communication between the poets and the reader. This aims at involving the reader emotionally in instances of awful characters as well as the pleasant characters demonstrated in the poems. More so, both poems use verses as an effective tool to be in close contact with the reader. This is an effective way of helping the reader to create a mental picture, following the questions proposed by the writer.
According to the interpretation of the poems, the lamb and the tiger represent the human...