The speaker in "The Tyger" and "The Lamb" suggests characteristics about the one who made the Lamb and the Tyger. How is this creator described in each poem, and how do his creations contrast? What attitude toward the creator does each speaker demonstrate? Create a written response of at least 200 words in answer to these questions, using details from "The Lamb" and "The Tyger" to support your response.

The two poems "The Tyger" and "The Lamb" by William Blake are from his "Songs of Innocence and Experience" collection of poems which revolves around the Christian beliefs of "Paradise" and "Fall".

Explanation:

The creator of both the "Tyger" and the "Lamb" are described as a God, n one hand a blacksmith, forging from the deepest and fiercest fires to create the Tyger while the other is presented as a God who is a "meek and mild" creator. The created beings are different in such a way that one is "fearful" while the other is "little [....with] a tender voice".

The speaker of the "Tyger" talks of the fierceness, the greatness and the image of someone to be afraid or scared of while the creator of the "Lamb" is pictured as someone who is meek and benevolent. This contrasting image of God who is the creator of both animals is Blake's way of showing the duality of God's personality, the presence of both good and evil in God and the appearance of these two depend on the "created being".

The lamb is described as a created being out of "Softest clothing wooly bright; Gave thee such a tender voice,", made by a creator who "calls himself a Lamb: He is meek & he is mild, He became a little child".

On the other hand, the creator of the Tyger is shown as a blacksmith with "immortal hand or eye", daring enough to "seize the fire [..... with] dread hand" and making his brain from the "furnace".