tyger and lamb comparioson

The gentle lamb and the menacing tyger in Blake’s “Songs of Innocence and Experience shows the contrast between the innocence of childhood and the experience of adulthood. The first two lines of. “The Lamb” sets the style of childish inquisitiveness, “Little Lamb who made thee/Doust thou know who made thee?” (1-2) The poem is divided into two stanzas, the first containing the questions about who made the little lamb and about, “Who gave …

…hand or eye/Dare frame thy fearful symmetry” (21-24) In the poems, innocence is happiness, in contrast, experience is unhappiness, foreboding, ill favored, there does not appear to be anything good about experience. Blake implies God created all creatures some in his image, “the Lamb” and some in his opposite image, “The Tyger”. The Lamb from Blake’s, “Songs of Innocence and Experience and “the Tyger” are 2 examples of the difference between innocence and experience.