The Lamb vs. The Tyger By William Blake Essay -- essays research paper

In this essay I am going to be looking at two verses from the Songs of innocence and experience works. These poems are The Lamb and The Tyger written by William Blake. Both these poems have many implicit in(p) intends and are vatical in ways and both poems are very different to each other. In this essay I will be analysing the two poems, covering my opinions of the underlying themes and backing them up with quotes from the poems. I will compare the poems looking at the similarities and differences between them and also look at each one individually focal point on the imagery, structure and the poetic devices William Blake has used. Firstly I will look at the Tyger a poem about experience.The first thing that strikes me about this poem is the structure. The poem is very ordered written with 4 lines a stanza and a total of 6 stanzas. This looks like a professional poem created by an adult, showing experience right away. The syllables are normally 7 per line but there are exceptio ns to this rule as all of stanza 5 has 8 syllables a line. The first stanza and the last stanza are nearly the same apart from the last line of each differing by a word. This poem uses many poetic devices closely to create a burnished picture in the readers mind. There are riming couplets, alliteration, repetition, rhetorical questions as well as many biblical and vain references to the artist and poet himself. Now we will look at the poems meanings.The poem at first glance looks to be about a Tyger but after meter reading throughthoroughly a few times we learn that there are many underlying themes and tones to this poem. For example the many biblical references immortal meaning to not die, fire related to hell heaven related to God and wings also relate... ...ast each other well. Both poems use imagery, repetition, alliteration and rhyming and both have many biblical references and rhetorical questions. Although each poem is different in its structure, theme and the way it is written.In conclusion these two poems by William Blake are both deep and have hole-and-corner(a) meanings, they both use imagery, repetition, alliteration and ryming couplets as well as biblical references to create a vivid pictures in the readers head. But these poems do differ in many ways such as the structure, theme and way it is written. The Tyger appeals to me most as it has more hidden meanings than the Lamb and the Lamb is boring and as if written by a child (for effect). In this essay I have analysed, contrasted and compared the two poems The Tyger and The Lamb to the scoop up of my ability detailing the poetic devices used and the underlying meanings.