Write a note on Blake's use of imagery and symbolism in The Tyger and The Lamb.
Ans. - William Blake is a mystic par excellence, and perhaps the greatest poet in English Literature who expresses his mystical thoughts through symbols. Like Shelley, he uses the objects of nature as symbols to suggest the spiritual reality that lies behind appearances. The Songs of Innocence and the Songs of Experience are apparently very simple but not always actually so. Moreover, often they have great depths and are capable of encouraging a number of interpretations. These songs are lyrics which deal with rural life, with childhood joys, with trees, flowers and birds, with lambs and shepherds. Blake's 'Introduction' indicates the origin of the collection: Piping down the valleys wild. Blake's poetry comprises different types of symbols, such as, innocence symbols, energy symbols, sexual symbols, corruption symbols, oppression symbols and so on.
In The Lamb and The Tyger, Blake tried to draw a picture of God's creation of meek and fierce creatures together. Blake believed in Transcendentalism which means God is present in all creatures. Both poems display Romanticism through the use of symbolism which glorifies the disparity of nature's aspects.
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