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
             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
             "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 poem about a amiable lamb and it's
             creator. It is divided into two stanzas, the first
             containing questions of whom it was who created
             such a docile creature with "clothing of delight
             (Blake 6)." There are images of the lamb
             frolicking in divine meadows and babbling
             brooks. The stanza closes with the same inquiry
             which it began with. The second stanza begins
             with the author claiming to know the lamb's
             creator, and he proclaims that he will tell him.
             Blake then states that the lamb's creator is none
             different then the lamb itself. Jesus Christ is often
             described as a lamb, and Blake uses lines such as
             "he is meek and he is mild (Blake 15)" to
             accomplish this. 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)." The poem is one of a child's curiosity,
             untainted conception of creation, and love of all
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