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 …showed first 75 words of 705 total…

…showed last 75 words of 705 total…frame of mind of a Romantic, and The Tyger sets a divergent Hadean image to make the former more holy. The Lamb, from William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience is a befitting representation of the purity of heart in childhood, which was the Romantic period. Bibliography Blake, William. Songs of Innocence and Experience, The Tyger and The Lamb. The Longman Anthology of British Literature . Ed. David Damrosch. New York: Addison Wesley Longman, Inc. 1999. 112, 120.