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Blake is one of the most important poets in English literature. He was a great artist and drower, in fact main means of expression for him is the mix of drowing and poetry. He was born in London in 1757 and in 1782 he got married to a woman of humble conditions and he tought her to read and write. An important aspect of his personality is that he was a visionary. In fact he claimed to have seen God and the Angels and ti have received visits from the souls of Dante e Milton. Blake never left London in the last years he had suport and admiration of a group of young. He believed that the real man is made up of imagination which is eternal. He died in 1827. He was considered a pre-romantic poet, also if his democratic ideals, his contemplation in nature and his interest in Medieval were romantic. He pove the way for the return to the supremacy of the spirit which will became the doctrine of Romanticism. Blake anticipates many themes of Romanticism: as the exaltation of art, the awareness and sympathy wih the suffering of the poor.

His masterpiece

In a first moment there was a publication of the "Songs of Innocence", then Blake added the "Songs of Experience" to form a single book under the title "Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience showing the two contrary states of human soul". Sometimes the loss of innocence is associated with the loss of childhood, in Blake childhood doesn't represent a particular age but a state of the soul, a vision of life some as a child which could be also in maturity. But man cannot remain a child forever: in order to grow, experience becomes a necessary stage in the life and man must know not only joy but also serrow. Infact Blake stated: "Without contraries no progression. Reason and energy, love and hate are necessary to human existence". The "Lamb" belongs to the first part of collection, Songs of Innocence, whilst the "Tyger" is the protagonist of the second section, Songs of the Experience. These two poems concern the problem of creation and the identity of the Creator.

The Lamb

The Lamb is a biblical image and the symbol of innocence and purity. It is linked to the child. They both have a "tender voice" and are "meek" and "mild". In this poem Blake speaks about Christ but also about a human condition of innocence which has not been put to the test of experience.

The Tyger

The Tyger is a creature which causes fears and danger; it does not belong to christian symbolism and it is connected with the "forests of the night". It is the opposite of the Lamb, and the symbol of experience, of the sufferings and violence present in human life.

The Lamb and the Tyger, symbolise two different aspects of God's creation which contains both good and evil, innnocence and experience as two contrary states of the human soul.