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Comparison Of The Lamb And The Tyger

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Who created good and evil? Why would the same hands that created the good also create evil? These are things we as humans are asking one another. Most times in our lives yet, we do do not have the answers. William Blake, in his two poems "The Lamb" and "The Tyger" approaches these questions we have had ourselves. Both poems give a viewpoint on religion that shows innocence and vulgar, as well as the frightening and baffaling.
The poems both ask a question about the creator a.k.a God. In the Lamb, Gods question is answered. The child knows that the one who created him is the same being that created the Lamb, in lines 17 and 18, Blake writes: "I a child & thou a lamb;/ We are called by his name". The child though does not mention God until in lines 19 and 20 when he says: "Little Lamb God bless thee. /Little Lamb God bless thee." "The Lamb" directly tells us that the child knows the creator to be God, while in "The Tyger" the creator question is not answered; it is left hanging for the reader to figure it out. The author asks if the same mighty hand that created the sweet and innocent lamb could be the same hand that created the fearful and dreadful tiger. This is shown in the fifth stanza when Blake says, "Did he who made the Lamb make thee?" Though these poems are similar in that they ask the creator question, they are different in the way that the question is asked. In "The Tyger", Blake presents his question in Lines 3 and 4 in a more arrogant way, "What immortal hand or

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