Analysis of The Lamb and The Tyger by William Blake Essay -- William B

William Blake was a first generation Romantic poet. Many of his poemswere comminuted of a monastic order who thought themselves to be al virtuallyperfect, a society run by, not their own free will, but the use oftechnology. He wanted people to question what they had always done,and whether it was morally right. He did so by using varyingtechniques that set up clashes between ideologies and reality. Hispoems waive us to see into the eternal world of the spirit and hisdreams of the sacred England he had always wanted, a ass undamagedby technology, a place that is peaceful and tranquil. But not all hispoems reflect this. In fact, from Blakes Songs of Innocence and of witness there ar a number of poems, describing what living could belike and in reality what life is like. Two examples are The Lamb andThe Tyger. We can see he uses poetic techniques to set up suchclashes. These 2 poems demonstrate exactly Blakes views on the illsof society, generally referring to the industrial rev olution and theimpacts and consequences it brought.The Lamb and The Tyger are both poems written in the form of alyric which describes the capturing of a particular moment and mostimportantly the mood or insight it stimulates in the poet. Blakethought that a lyric gives the freedom to tell anything and explorethe emotions and ideas that some incident has created. Blake shows the legitimate meaning of lyric by actually titling his volume Songs ofInnocence and of Experience.The Songs of Innocence are poems which bring out happy feelings andshow the immensity in life. They represent innocence and a tiddler -like vision, hence The Lamb is about God creating a lamb who is a finical and holy creature. The So... ...and symmetry do not rhyme unlike the oppositerhyming couplets. This is also to cause confusion and bring about ssense of unease, the same confusion Blake felt through his life andchild hood when he had visions and the society around him waschanging. The Tyger and The Lamb a re two poems written along the same linesbut ending up to be completely different. However both poems show thesame beliefs and opinions of William Blake perfectly and expresswhat he wanted everyone to remember and the lesson he wanted everyoneto learn. This was that no thing how far man gets with technologicaladvances and no matter how far the industrial revolution takes peopleit will never be able to crush down the tool of human imagination,which is by far the strongest, and natures wild spirit, demonstrate increatures such as the fierce tyger and meek & mild lamb.