In all of British literature, the Romantic period is the only one that bears the name of a literary form, the romance. (Greenblatt 4) It was during this time that William Blake published his collection Songs of Innocence and Experience, known for its many romantic ideas about the innocence and naivety of childhood and later the ultimate corruption resulting from wisdom and experience inevitable in adulthood. Blake is known for his criticism of the Church, government and nobility. The poems in this particular volume contain reflections on youth, ideas on maturity and the injustice of society. (Greenblatt 118) Many poems in Songs of Innocence and Experience are counterparts of each other and show two contrary states of the human soul. Two such examples are “The Lamb” and “The Tyger”. “The Lamb” reads like a basic poem and has only two stanzas of ten lines. The stanzas are arranged with rhyming couplets and begin and end with repetitions of the same lines. Blake using the same lines to open and close stanzas makes readers feel like they are singing a song. This also adds to the overall theme of innocence and childlike wonder. It begins with the speaker, a child, asking, “Little lamb, who created you?” To whom can we attribute the idea of ​​a lamb, its woolen “clothes” (which in turn create clothes) and its “tender voice” which is nothing more than a soft sound ? In the second stanza, the child/speaker asks if the lamb was made by someone who “calls himself lamb,” a reference to Jesus. In other words, was the lamb created by Jesus, who also evokes innocence, in the same way as a child and a lamb? The second stanza also refers to Jesus, the Lamb, becoming a child and experiencing the same suffering... middle of paper ...... about the nature of God. It seems that Blake just couldn't fully grasp the idea of ​​living in a world where beauty and horror, like the lamb and the tiger, could both exist. Ultimately two opposing animals, a fierce tiger and a gentle lamb. are created, and it is almost unbelievable that both were created by the same God – a God who must imagine the ferocity and predatory nature of the tiger and at the same time the calm and tame being of the lamb. The fact that they are polar opposites gives readers a basis to realize that humans were also created by the same God and that they are all as unique and different as the lamb and the tiger. Why God brought something as powerful as a tiger into a world full of innocent people like lambs is life's most fundamental mystery. There are things in the universe that are unexplainable, but we must accept them