“The Tiger” and “The Lamb” were both poems by William Blake. In this essay I am going to compare the two poems. Blake as a child was an outcast, and didn’t have many friends. He was educated from home by his parents and fond sociability difficult. His family believed very strongly in God but did not agree with the teachings of the church. During his lonely hours Blake often read the Bible. He had a lot of free time to think about ideas reflect on life, and to strengthen his imagination. You could find a lot of biblical discourse in his poems. By the time he was an adult his active imagination allowed him to create vivid poetry and paintings, finally sent him mad! Blake published twp very famous books of poems of “Songs of Experience” and “Songs of Innocence”. Poems from the “Songs of Experience” are all about the God who brought all the evil and suffering into the world. The poems from the “Songs of Innocence” are about the redemptive God of the New Testament, like Jesus. “The Lamb......
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