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  • Essay / Analysis of Blake's songs of innocence and experience...

    For example, in "The Lamb", Blake describes the lamb as a symbol of purity and innocence by describing it as gentle and gentle, tender-voiced, and softly and brightly dressed (6, 7 and 15). With these descriptive adjectives, the reader can easily interpret that Blake is using the lamb to symbolize an innocent child. However, in "The Tyger", the tiger is symbolized as potentially evil and dominant. Blake describes the tiger as having eyes of fire, framed with fearful symmetry, and made in the fiery furnace of hell, thus representing the tiger as a symbol of evil (4.6 and 14). He also states how even the heavens and earth were turned upside down by the creation of this evil being and, as a result, "the stars threw down their spears / And watered the sky with their tears" (17-18). Through Blake's use of description, the reader is able to visualize what is happening throughout the poem, and the reader can draw conclusions and discern the symbolism in both "The Lamb" and "The 'Lamb ยป.