Lamb vs The Tyger
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As literature moved to the new era of revolution and romanticism in Europe and America, there were many changes in literature its forms. One of them "nature and nature's laws, the rationally ordered universe" provided the foundation for much early eighteenth-century thought. In the nineteenth century, nature's importance possibly increased- but nature now meant something new" (2142). Published in 1794 as two of the Songs of Experience and Innocence, Blake's the Tyger and the Lamb are poems about the nature of creation. These poems are meant to be interpreted in comparison and contrast to show the contrary state of the human soul with respect to recreation.
In William Blake's Songs of Experience and Innocence, the gentle lamb and the tiger dine childhood by setting a contrast between the innocence and the experience of age. The Lamb is written with childish repetitions and a selection of words which could satisfy any audience of young age. Blake's illustration suggests, "Little Lamb, who make thee? /Dost thou know who make thee?"(1-2)...