William Blake finds many ways to lead the reader of his poems to an understanding of what he, as an artist, is trying to convey through his words. Blake frequently uses distinguished words and images to establish vibrant pictures in the mind of the reader, In Blake's Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience he also uses unique engravings to depict the transformation of the Western world in an era of intense social change, where people began to challenge political powers, and Christian theology. Songs of Innocence and Experience are contradictory to each other. Innocence as a whole depicts a bright and pastoral setting, a world free from sin, guilt, and the harms of evil, much like the times of youth. Where as, Experience emphasizes on a world of cruelty, jealousness, and possessiveness; best represented by adulthood.

The Chimney Sweeper in Songs of Innocence tells the story of a young boy, by the name of Tom Dacre, who worked as a chimneysweeper order to help support his family after his mother had died. This poem is mirrored in Songs of Experience, yet the second version tells of a boy that learns a much more pertinent lesson. Blake makes a comparison between the ch

As the reader moves through the Songs of Innocence the realization is recognized that a youth without worries cannot last a lifetime and Blake immediately moves into Songs of Experience. The Tyger begins by telling of this beautiful creature that has the speaker in awe. The primary question asked by the speaker throughout The Tyger, "What immortal hand or eye/ Could frame thy fearful symmetry? (Blake 3-4)" resembles the same question asked in The Lamb. Yet this question is asked in a different context, the speaker is not a child and knows to fear the tyger. "Did he who made the Lamb make thee? (Blake 20)." Is it possible for each of these creatures in Blake's poems to be created by the same being? One being so tame and docile and the other representing all that is feared and respected in nature. The lamb is written in the frame of mind that a Romantic would have, while the tyger sets a divergent Hadean image to make the former more holy than when compared to such a dreadful b!

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east. In Genesis for six days God created all that we know, and He rested on the seventh day when in reflection He looked at His work and saw that it was good. God is represented as being pleased with His creation, but Blake wonders whether this can be true of the tyger. If so, it is not easy to see how the same creator should have made the lamb. The engraving entirely fits the poem, the striping of the tyger changes from plate to plate and this serves as an imperfection in his engravings. One could assume that a mistake in the striping could suggest a marking of sin and also imperfection, possibly suggesting a fault in God's creation. A single, stable tree accompanies the tyger. Blake strays in this inst

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