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William Blake was a mystic poet and this Mystic movement of his
mind required Metaphor, he saw no likeness but identities, so the
images and symbols are found galore (plentiful) in his poems. The
image of generally viewed as singles in dimension while the symbol
as more complex. Legions and Cazamian remark that Blakes
poetry deals in the subtlest (illustrated) of symbolism with the
skill that can not be matched. In the Song of Innocence (1789)
his symbols are largely drawn from the Bible, but in the Song of
Experience (1794) he often uses symbols of his own making, and
his meaning is more elusive.
Both the lamb and the tiger are created by God. The lamb
represents the milder and gentler aspect. The lamb represents
the calm and pleasant beauty of creation, the tyger its fearful
beauty. The grass contrasts between the nature of the lamb and
the tyger make the poet ask- did he who made the lamb make
thee.
The tyger is Gods wrath as the lamb is his love. The tiger is a
truth lens, natural predatory and it is man own burning passion
shut up within his natural body. The lamb, on the other hand, is
an object of joy. Its bleat fills all the valleys with joy. The
question asked in The Lamb proceeds from the simplicity and
innocence of the questioner (The child). They have nothing of the
bottling and enigmatic nature of the questions asked in the tiger.
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