Blog 9 Blake's Lamb and Tyger Tina Radstone

         
First I would like to start this post by stating that reading these poems and then picking them apart is very difficult to me.

I chose to do William Blake's poems, "The Lamb" and the "Tyger". Both poems are about the speaker questioning who their creator is. The difference is that in the poem "The Lamb", the speaker is questioning the Lamb in a Godly spiritual way. Although the speaker asks the question, "Little Lamb, who made thee?" ("TheLamb", 1); it's almost like he is making a statement like, "You are such a precious being, somebody or something of a higher power had to create you." On the other hand in Blake's other poem, "The Tyger", the speaker questions who the Tyger's creator is because the Tyger is ferocious and strong and gives the impression that the Tyger's creator could only of been someone or something that is as fearless as the Tyger.

In "The Lamb" the speaker gives a heavenly and cheery impression of the Lamb with the usage of positive words to describe it. For example:

          Gave thee clothing of delight,
          Softest clothing wooly bright;
          Gave thee such a tender voice,
          Making all the vales rejoice! ("The Lamb", 5-8)

The words delight, bright, tender voice and vales rejoice, are beautiful and positive. The speaker says that the Lamb's voice is so tender that all the vales (a place full of sadness) rejoice. Even the sad or unhappy places on the earth are brought together.

In "The Tyger", the words are not so vibrant and happy. The words to describe the Tyger are strong words. A great example is, "Tyger! Tyger! burning bright" ("The Tyger", 1) and "Burnt the fire of thine eyes?" ("The Tyger, 6). The words burning bright and fire aren't happy cheerful words, they aren't necessarily negative; they are strong words to describe the Tyger. The speaker even asks, "In what distant deeps or skies" ("The Tyger", 5), implying God or Satan could have created something so magnificent and fierce.

The speaker of "The Lamb" and "The Tyger" are the same speaker because in "The Tyger", the speaker asks the Tyger, "Did he who made the Lamb make thee?" He's reverting back to the other poem, "The Lamb". The author William Blake intended for these poems to have a connection. I don't think that the reader would think twice as hard to who created the Lamb had he not added the Tyger to the occasion.