Essay of Comparison between The Tiger and The Lamb, poems by William Bl

Essay of Comparison between The Tiger and The Lamb, poems by William BlakeThe Tiger and The Lamb were poems by William Blake, a poet wholived in the 18th century. In this essay I am going to compargon the twopoems and examine links between them relating to rhymes, patterns andwords used.Blakes background relates on the poems he wrote, and many of hisworks reflected his early stand life. Blake in his childhood was anoutcast, a l one(a)r, and didnt have many friends. His family believedvery strongly in beau ideal and were extremely pious Christians but did notagree with the teachings of the church, so young William Blake oftenwas made to think about God and his teachings during his studies.Because his p arents were rebels against the Church of England, andmost schools were affiliated with the Church in those days, Blake wasmade to find education somewhere else. He was educated from home byhis parents, a practise not done much nowadays.Blake found he had a lot of free while to think about his many ideas,his poetry, life and the care, and also found that he had a verystrong imagination. In his poems, many biblical and religiousundertones are found as he often wove double meanings into his works.By the time he was an adult his active imagination allowed him tocreate vivid poetry and paintings, like the paintings that haverecently been displayed at the National Gallery. Blakes most famousbooks of poems are entitled Songs of Experience and Songs ofInnocence, and the two most famous poems from these two books are theones I am comparing in this essay. Poems from the Songs ofExperience are all about the type of God who brought all the evil andsuffering into the world, the vengeful God w... ...Industrial Revolution troubles) and would not have the time or moneyto take a trip into the countryside. So it too is like a dream, and afantasy, and it is also a sign of hope and peace, because in thosedays the industrial revolution was taking place and fields and openspace wo uld be disappearing. In its place would be smoggy factories,slum towns and waste tips. This imagery by Blake I find is veryeffective in also making us remember the conditions most people (butnot Blake) had to live in back in those days.The Lamb is obviously a poem of questions - the main difference manakinThe Tiger being that The Lamb provides the answers for the readerand the metaphorical lamb in the second verse, whilst the lattersquestions remain unanswered. I personally feel that the poem is askingone main question that is Did he who made the Lamb make thee?