The Lamb Tone

The most leading literary device used in Blake’s poems is symbolism. In this particular poem, “The Lamb” is a reference to God himself. This is because of the trinity that is involved with being a Christ follower. The trinity is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. The child in the poem, is a symbol as innocence and purity just like Jesus Christ. Christians are to “receive the kingdom of God like a child” (Luke 18:17, ESV). This means that we are to have child-like faith, and trust in God, just like children do in their parents.

Just like the “lamb” that was born into this world through a virgin and was sacrificed for all mankind, this same “lamb” made us and called us by his name. In his poem "The Lamb," William Blake clearly uses repetition, personification, and symbolism to describe his religious beliefs and how a pure sacrifice is portrayed by a little lamb. Laura Quinney’s book, “William Blake on Self and Soul,” shows the religious side of Blake when it says, “Blake makes this argument in his address “To the Deists,” where he insists “Man must & will have Some Religion; if he has not the Religion of Jesus, he will have the Religion of Satan” (Quinney, 2009). Blake uses his religious view to show us he believes that our creator is the Lamb of God. He distinctively uses the innocence and purity of a little lamb and how its creator clearly takes care of it. The lamb is fed, given water by the stream and a bidden a blessed life.

The Songs of Innocence poems first appeared in Blake’s 1784 novel, An Island in the Moon. In 1788, Blake began to compile in earnest, the collection of Songs of Innocence. And by 1789, this original volume of plates was complete. These poems are the products of the human mind in a state of innocence, imagination, and joy; natural euphoric feelings uninhibited or tainted by the outside world. Following the completion of the Songs of Innocence plates, Blake wrote The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and it is through this dilemma of good and evil and the suffering that he witnesses on the streets of London, that he begins composing Songs of Experience. This second volume serves as a response to Songs of

“Huswifery” Edward Taylor uses tone in a way that it makes his poems seem heavy and unique. He also uses first person point of view in his poem, which makes his poem more understanding. In his poem “Huswifery” he uses tone in a grievous way, that it makes it have imagery in his poem. For example, “ That I am Cloathd in Holy robes for glory’’. This stanza has heavy tone because it makes us see the imagery in his point of view.

The first line in the poem says, “Tyger Tyger, burning bright.” By Blake repeating the word Tyger twice, it feels to the reader as if we are speaking directly to the tiger. The

Thesis Statement: The Lamb written by William Blake is a beautiful spiritually enriched poem that expresses God’s sovereignity, His love for creation and His gentleness in care and provisions for those that are His .

The strongest literary element in William Blake's poem "The Tyger," which is figurative language. ‘’Figurative language can be defined as anything said or written that means something beyond the literal meaning of the words that are used’’ (2). The initial lines of Blake's poem are chock full of intense figurative language: Tyger! Tyger! burning bright, In the forests of the night, the tiger is not literally burning, of course, and this metaphor of fire and burning is carried out through the poem and takes on all sorts of associations, including an association with the infernal. Allusion also plays an important role in the poem. Stanza two includes an allusion to Icarus, who in classic myth attempts to fly to the sun ("...what wings..."). The allusion mixes with the fire imagery, and the idea that the creator forges the tiger in fire, like a blacksmith. Stanza five contains an allusion to the fall of Satan from heaven (the stars

In The Lamb William Blake asks the little lamb who made him and he tells the little lamb that God made him. In the other poem William talks about the tiger and asks him the same question but then goes on to ask why someone would create such a thing like the tiger. William never tells us who made the tiger but it does make you think about what he was talking about with their being two types of people in the world. William uses the word dare a lot in the poem it makes you think that no one should have made the tiger in the first place. William Blake’s

These lines give the reader an image of burning fire, the faintest whiffs of gasoline, and a searing pain in the heart. The last piece of textual evidence that proves shows a portrayal of anger in Alexander Bentley’s poem is in the subtle pattern in the text. In every stanza of the poem, there is at least one word that can be relatable to anger. The poem reads, “Burned/ combusted/ bullet/ shattered/ losing/ embers/ darkened” ( Bentley

In “The Tyger” Blake uses the tyger as an archetype of power. Tigers in the real world today are the biggest killing/hunting machines, and they never let anything get in their way. Tigers want all the power. Blake explains “What immortal hand or eye, could frame thy fearful symmetry?”. He uses the word fearful in that sentence to describe the tigers face. He also used the word could in the quote above, but also restates the statement using dare instead of could. Blake is trying to get at how could someone make something so destructive and demanding. Blake uses fire to describe the tiger several times. For example, “In what distant deeps or skies burnt the fire of thine eyes.” Blake's uses fire to describe the tiger because they share similar qualities, such as being deadly and harmful to many living things. William Blake did a excellent job at explaining how a tiger is a good archetype for power.

The setting of the poem is abstract "forest of the night" and "distant deeps or skies", which makes the Tyger and Him be in the spotlight. The Tyger is described with imageries of fire: it is "burning bright" and in its eyes "burnt the fire". The beast is ferocious, wroth, and dangerous just like the fire itself.

William Blake was a painter, engraver and poet of the Romantic era, who lived and worked in London. Many of Blake’s famous poems reside in his published collection of poems titled Songs of Innocence and of Experience. This collection portrays the two different states of the human soul, good and evil. Many poems in the Songs of Innocence have a counterpart poem in the Songs of Experience. The poem “A Poison Tree” is found in the Songs of Experience and it delves into the mind of man tainted with sin and corruption that comes with experience. In a simple and creative style, the religious theology of the Fall of Man is brought to life. The poem tells the story of how man fell from a state of innocence to impurity, focusing on the harmful repercussions of suppressed anger. Blake utilities many literary devices to successfully characterizes anger as an antagonist with taunting power.

In William Blake’s “The Tyger,” the tone shifts from evil to good and conveys the theme of balance and the harmony that balance can have. that changes tone throughout the poem. The poet is explaining the evil and the good and reveals the concept of yin-yang or balance.

William Blake’s “The Lamb” is a part of the Songs of Innocence (1789) and was later accompanied by a larger work, the Songs of Experience (1794). Blake expressed what he believed, and he wanted to prove his true understanding of Christianity. His audience for his poem understood Christianity and were familiar with the Bible. The poem establishes the theme of the vulnerability of innocence and a vision of the speaker. The child's view is limited on account of unawareness of the total reality of human knowledge. The voice of the poem is formed from a speaker that seems to be an innocent child, communicating with a lamb who is unable to answer or respond to the child. The rhyme scheme is similar to that of Dr. Seuss, it is like a nursery rhyme, and also a riddle. This is one of William’s simpler poems, but with a closer analysis it reveals hidden symbols, meaning, tones, and wordplay.

These four godlike aspects of humanity are metaphors who deny all reason for everything natural and organic. I realize further in the poem that Blake has interpreted mankind to be forged as a creation from the fearsome Old Testament God. Thus, the 'Human Dress is forged in Iron', while human form, face and heart are severally 'a fiery Forge', 'a Furnace seal'd' and 'its hungry Gorge'. The overall impression is that it is humans who are being jealous, who cause terror, who create secrecy and cruelty. Mankind is therefore not soft or kind. Humanity has full potential for destruction and is none stop striving for power whilst constructive energy as a forge or a furnace. The human heart is not a reflection of something soft and tender but of a consuming mouth, like that of a beast. Monstrous, unnatural and oppressive are all factor concluding the human nature which imitates a terrifying God, or of a reflection of negative qualities of humanity creating this God. – I agree with Blake´s vison of the