William Blake's "The Lamb" and "The Tyger" reflect on the idea of the infinite, and in each case the poet asks the animal in question about its maker. "The Lamb" is a poem of innocence, and "The Tyger" a poem of experience. The very title of each creates a contrast between the innocence of the lamb and the predatory danger of the tyger.
The imagery of "The Lamb" is evocative of innocence and of God, specifically as embodied in Christ. The two stanzas compare the lamb to the maker of the lamb. In the first stanza, the poet asks the lamb about its maker and refers to all the things that maker gave the lamb--clothing of wool, a tender voice, and the environment in which the lamb lives:
Gave thee life & bid thee feed (3-4).
In the second stanza, the poet says he will tell the lam who made it, and he draws on Christian imagery of Christ as the lamb, referring as well to the doctrine that God and Christ are one and that God was born in Christ:
Blake uses repetition to emphasize the nature of this poem--he asks the same question at the beginning and end of the first stanza, thus showing not only that the question is important but also that it has not yet been answered. Instead, the nature of the question has been clarified by references to all that the maker has given the lamb. in "The Tyger," Blake repeats most of the first stanza in the last stanza, changing one word to reflect the nature of the discourse of the poem, leading from uncertainty to knowledge. The tyger is a mystical creature as described here, not the simple, real creature the lamb is. The spelling with a "y" separates this beast from that which would be found in an earthly jungle, and instead this tyger is supernatural, something that does not fit in the jungle where a real animal would be found:
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