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    In “The Lamb,” Blake uses the image of the sheep to paint a picture of innocence. The sheep is an image of Jesus Christ. The sheep is also an image of life. It provides people with food, clothing and different things they need to survive. The phrase “For he calls himself a lamb” is a phrase that Jesus himself used (Blake 538). A sheep is an exceptionally accommodating and gentle animal, which could be why Blake decided to use this creature to represent the generous side of God. He even refers to God as resigned and meek in verse fifteen: “He is docile and he is gentle.” Blake must show his disciples that God is wrathful but is a forgiven and worshiping inventor. In “The Tyger,” William Blake takes the opposite position to the one he had in “The Lamb.” In "The Tyger", Blake shows that God created some sort of evil animal in the tiger. Blake pits God against a metalsmith when he made the tiger. He does this using lines like "What is the sled", "What is the chain", "What radiator was your brain in", What is the anvil" ( Blake 539). By asking these questions, Blake reveals to us that God must have been a forge because of the use of words like block of iron, mallet, and radiator. These are all things that metalworkers use. The tiger is a brutal stalker of its prey and, by definition, a metal smith is a brutal vocation. says “what divine hand or eye could draw thy terrible symmetry” (Blake 538), he is referring to God. Blake thinks about how an immortal thing could make a brute like the tiger. As Blake stated, this animal has a unique "internal". " source of vitality which recognizes its presence in the frozen and dark universe of soulless things (Blake 3). There...... middle of paper ...... an idea behind all this is to make the viewer to who made them. The rhyme in "The Lamb" is exceptionally basic The main and second lines rhyme while the third and fourth lines rhyme. this ballad be simple yet contain an incredibly extraordinary and effective message The rhyming words are not huge words, but words that would be used in a child's book Like sweet, child, splendid, joy, nourishment and. mead are extremely simple and easy to say when they rhyme. This helps the viewer identify with the virtue discussed in the sonnet. The conspiratorial rhyme in "The Tyger" is additionally exceptionally rudimentary in style. the rhyme plan is the same as for “The Lamb”. They are both made to really make you reconsider