Tiger and Lamb in "Songs of Experience" and "Song of Innocence" by William Blake.

Title: Tiger and Lamb in "Songs of Experience" and "Song of Innocence" by William Blake.
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Tiger and Lamb in "Songs of Experience" and "Song of Innocence" by William Blake.
God's Nature. Blake published two very famous books of poems, "Songs of Experience" and "Song of Innocence". The poems from "Songs of Experience" are all about God who brought the evil and suffering into the world. The "Songs of the Innocence" are talking about the redemptive God of the New Testament, like Jesus. The lamb is from the "Songs of Innocence" and the tiger from the "Songs of Experience". William Blake sees God as a …showed first 75 words of 694 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 694 total…Christ, the Son, represented all that is good and spiritual, while the Father, God, was a symbol of absolute power, terror and tyranny. It is possible to recognize Blake's interpretation of Christianity through his poetry. For instance in "The Lamb" Blake identifies the role of "the maker" not with God the father, but rather with Jesus, the Lamb of God. "Little Lamb, who make thee?/ "Little lamb, I'll tell thee/ he calls himself a lamb."

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