1. Examine Blake's twin poems "The Tyger" and "The Lamb" as 'two aspects of God and two states of man'.
1. Examine Blake's twin poems "The Tyger" and "The Lamb" as 'two aspects of God and two states of man'. Ans.: "The Lamb" and "The Tyger", are the representative poems from the Songs of Innocence and the Songs of Experience. They collectively confirm Blake's firm belief that 'without contraries there is no progression'. The poems express two aspects of God as well as the two states of men. On the one hand, Lamb' expresses 'innocence' in the imagery of the pastoral, while 'Tyger' expresses 'terror" Lamb represents the Christ to form a Trinity of Child, lamb and Redeemer, Tyger represents the God of wrath. The meaning of one poem is best understood in the presence of other. One is incomplete without the other. Blake, in his songs of innocence and experience had shown the binaries of life. According to his philosophy, man possesses power to attract both creativity and negation. Man unde...