William Blake was an English poet who was home-schooled by his parents and found it difficult to socialize with other children, making him somewhat of an outcast as a child. His family was very religious, but did not always agree with the teachings of the church. Because Blake didn't have many friends and was home-schooled, he had a lot of time to reflect on life. There is much biblical discourse in Blake's work, especially in his famous books Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. Songs of Innocence contains poems that speak of God in a redemptive sense like the teachings of the New Testament, where Songs of Experience speaks of the God who created evil and brought suffering into the world. This essay will compare and contrast two poems, one from each book titled The Lamb from the book Songs of Innocence and The Tiger from the book Songs of Experience. Both poems are examples of anaphora, meaning that a word or phrase will repeat throughout the poem giving it weight and emphasis. Blake's The Lamb is short and has only two stanzas. Each stanza contains five rhyming couplets with repetition at the beginning, middle, and end of the poem. The poem begins with a question: “Little Lamb, who created you? / Do you know who created you?" (Lines 1-2). Here the speaker clearly asks the lamb what his origins are and then questions the lamb again, asking if he really knows who his creator is. Blake then goes on to describe the gifts of life that the lamb has received from its creator, starting with life itself, with food, with clothing, with a voice "Make all the valleys rejoice!" (Line 8). lamb in lines 9 and 10 by repeating the same questions as in lines 1 and 2. In the second stanza, the speaker began......in the center of the paper......in the poem The Tyger and the poem The Lamb Another contrast is the open wonder of The Tyger and the casual confidence of The Lamb. The predator is the tiger and its prey brings power, darkness and danger goodness. The tiger is the adult who has experience and the lamb is the child who knows nothing but innocence. The tiger and the lamb are not only opposites, but create a paradox in the speaker's mind. Unlike The Lamb, where there are seven questions and answers in the poem, The Tyger is made up of fifteen unanswered questions. Many people find themselves asking unanswered questions and questions that contain answers about life, nature, God, and the universe. Blake is attempting to authenticate the complexity of the creatures of our world, asserting that there is a creator God and that we are not here by accident..