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Comparison between “The Tyger” and “The Lamb”

William Blake wrote both "The Tyger" and "The Lamb". "The Lamb", is a poem included in his songs of innocence collection, whilst "The Tyger" is included in the songs of experience. Although they are written by the same author and are both about animals they are very different poems with different purposes and directed at different audiences.

"The Lamb" has very simple imagery of a lamb and the poet creates a beautiful bright atmosphere for the lamb to live in, meadows, streams and vales. There is also personification of the vales. "The Tyger", however is described as burning bright. There are a lot of words in the poem to do with burning and fire. The Tyger is seen to be out of control and nothing can contain it, not even God. Blake is almost critical of God for creating the Tyger, “What dread hand and what dread foot”. Another semantic field Blake uses in the poem is of mechanical machinery and of the Tyger being created in the forge.

In the poem "The Lamb", Blake us...

Posted by: Joel Chibota

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