William Blake was a remarkable poet, but the public of his time did not know this. William Blake did not receive recognition for his poetry until he had passed away. He wrote two collections of poetry titled Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. In his poems “The Lamb” and “The Tyger”, Blake used a different example of symbolism, tone, and the speaker to tie the two together through comparison and contrast. Blake used symbolism to give the readers of his poems a mental image pertaining to the topic of his poems. The symbolism in his poems helped the reader to understand what his poems were about. In the poem “The Lamb”, the recurring theme and symbolisms in the poem were the lamb and the child, who both stood for innocence.