Prospectus

The Tyger vs. The Lamb
Blake thought that a poet was a prophet and the poetry that the poet wrote was a prophecy. Through his theory, reintegration of human life was possible. In Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience, it seems that there are opposing views of God in the poems of The Tyger and The Lamb. The speaker in each poem shows their view of God himself. In The Tyger, it seems like the speaker is wondering if God can be both loving and angry,...