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The day we are born is the first day we begin the journey called life. We start off this
journey as innocent beings ready to obtain the knowledge provided by the world, but eventually
some change and become corrupt individuals. In both the songs of innocence and experience,
William Blake observes these two different positions. Blake uses the Lamb and the Tyger to
depict what he believes happens to humans as they mature and then corrupted by the world.
These different experiences are to symbolize how people view and experience the world, but
mainly to expose ways of seeing that are not fully true.
The two poems not only point out how society is flawed, but to show the importance of
steadiness. William Blake describes how there are two different types of individuals. The lamb
represents how some people who are pleasant and timid, where the tiger characterizes a person
who is harsh and dreadful. In the poem “The Tyger” Blake has created a creature that is powerful
with eyes of fire. Throughout the poem, he asks rhetorical questions that create a sense of fear
