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1. Examine Blake's twin poems "The Tyger" and "The Lamb" as 'two aspects of God and two states of man'.

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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

Romantic Age An Introduction

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Romantic age French Revolution and American Revolution almost happened in same period. America was colonised by Britain, and American revolution happened in order to protest against the colonialism, Leaders like Martin Luther King Jr who fought for the American independence , and finally American revolution happened. ....(The picture of American revolution)...   French revolution was inspired by American revolution, and the major aim of French Revolution was to overthrow the Monarchy of France, and to spread the interest of people in democracy, nationalism and socialism because France was a Monarchy and lot of bad things were done by rulers of France thus people protested against the monarchy, just the Revolution happened France was in crises, the monarchy which claim to rule by the divine right ( divine right is given to any king, so that he can do anything because he has the power of God) .....(The picture of French Revolution).... Monarchy was ruling by the d