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The Tiger Lies With The Lamb The Tiger Lies With the Lamb William Blake is an English Romantic poet and artist during the French Revolution. In his writing he attempts to express his inner struggles about religion and politics in both pictures and words, which no other writer has attempted to do before him. Blake uses symbolism in his poems “The Tiger” and “The Lamb” to depict the all-powerful being that created both evil and good that exist together in one world, but he also shows that two totally opposite things can exist in harmony in the same world. In “The Tiger” Blake asks how an all-perfect God, responsible for innocence and goodness, could be the creator of violence and evil. This poem uses the jungle cat to symbolize “the savage and untamed forces in the natural world” (Prentice Hall, 551). The tiger of the poem contains a symmetrical form that goes along with the energy it contains and the good and evil of the experience. In the first stanza of the poem, the tiger is seen as “a burning figure in the night” (Magill, 204), symbolizing the burning vibrant passions bound in the darkened areas of the mind. The tiger can tiger, evil, world, lamb, poem, one, good, two, god, created, blake, shows, life, poems, magill, innocent, innocence, contains, both, being, totally, things, themes, same, questions, people, out, opposite, natural, human, gentleness, forces, experience, exist, different