The Tyger and The Lamb

I really enjoyed these two poems. I was part of the Tyger group and I was confused just a little bit, as we had to assume what the Lamb was. Once we met with the Lamb group, everything became clearer to me. They fit perfectly together. Each poem, I thought, was creative and made you think about its true meaning. The purpose of having two poems coincide each other was to pose the questions of "Where did you come from?" and "Who is your creator?" The answer to this was God, which brought up the question "Did the same creator, God, that made the pure, gentle, innocent lamb also create a fearful, sinful, and aggressive tiger?". The answer to this question was yes. God makes everything good and bad. In these poems, Blake represents Christianity. He asks in the Tyger poem if the Tyger is from Heaven or Hell in the lines "In what distant deeps or skies, Burnt the fire of thine eyes!" Is his creator God or Satan, and as we know it is God. The lines in the Lamb poem "He became a little child: I a child and thou a lamb" describe god's children, his creations. Also, the Lamb of God in Christianity is Jesus. He is associated with all the character traits of a Lamb -- gentle, kind, innocent, etc. The last question posed was "Why would God create something so nasty when he can create something so lovely? The answer? -- to keep things, such as the population balanced, with good and bad, and to make life more interesting, especially in animals, humans, and nature. God makes us ask questions such as these so we can figure things out for ourselves in this world. Blake writes these questions as us, the children of God, asking where we come from, who we are, and where does everything in our lives come from? They are all answered in the poem through both the Lamb and the Tyger.