Blake's Sogs of Innocence
THIS IS A ROUGH DRAFT NOT THE FINISHED FORM!!!!In William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience, the gentle lamb and the dire tiger define childhood by setting a contrast between the innocence of youth and the experience of age. The Lamb is written with childish repetitions and a selection of words which could satisfy any audience under the age of five. Blake applies the lamb in representation of youthful immaculateness. The Tyger is hard-featured in comparison to The Lamb, in respect to word choice and representation. The Tyger is a poem in which the author makes many inquiries, almost chantlike in their reiterations. The question at hand: could the same creator have made both the tiger and the lamb? For William Blake, the answer is a frightening one. The Romantic Period's affinity towards childhood is epitomized in the poetry of Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience. "Little Lamb who made thee/ Dost thou know who made thee (Blake 1-2)." The Lamb's introductory lines set the style for what follows: an innocent poe!
Blake then makes it clear that the poem's point of view is from that of a child, when he says "I a child and thou a lamb (Blake 17). Instead of the innocent lamb we now have the frightful tiger- the emblem of nature red in tooth and claw- that embodies experience. William Blake's words have turned from heavenly to hellish in the transition from lamb to tiger. "Burnt the fire of thine eye (Blake 6)," and "What the hand dare seize the fire (Blake 7)?" are examples of how somber and serrated his language is in this poem. New York: Addison Wesley Longman, Inc. It's the difference between a feel-good! minister waxing warm and fuzzy for Jesus, and a fiery evangelist preaching a hellfire sermon. The Longman Anthology of British Literature . After more interrogation, the question evolves to "who could create such a villain of its potential wrath, and why?" William Blake's implied answer is "God. Songs of Innocence and Experience, The Tyger and The Lamb. The stanza closes with the same inquiry which it began with. According to Blake, God created all creatures, some in his image and others in his antithesis. Innocence is "why and how?" while experience is "why and how do things go wrong, and why me?" Innocence is ignorance, and ignorance is, as they say, bliss. Experience asks questions unlike those of innocence.
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