Archetypes In The Tyger

Two types of people
A Discussion of Archetypes

Have you ever wondered what kind of archetype you are? Well you are probably wondering what is an archetype, well an archetype is a type of characteristic. William Blake wrote two poems using archetypes. They were The Lamb and The Tyger. In these poem he compared people's characteristics to these poems. The characteristic that Blake wanted us to realize in The Lamb is that the lamb is innocence . Also what Blake wants us to know about the tyger is that he is experienced. William Blake wants us to know about the archetypes that are represented in Lamb and Tyger. The first archetype that Blake wrote was in The lamb and the poem represents innocence. William Blake got the idea for The lamb in the song of innocence. One thing that showed the lamb was innocence was when William Blake said “He is called by thee name, for he calls himself a Lamb: He is meek and he is mild, He became a little child: I a child & thou a lamb, We are called by his name.” (pg. 48 lines 13-18). In these lines Blake talks about how god is the one that calls himself

What the author means by this is that the tyger is more experienced to the things on the earth. In this poem Blake asks the same question that he asked in the previous poem The Lamb who made them. Blake asks this because he is a christian writer. Blake represents the tyger as experienced because he wants people to think about how the tyger can be more experienced. One way that he represented this is by writing, “Tyger, Tyger burning bright, in the forests in the night: What immortal hand or eye, Dare frame thy fear symmetry.” (pg. 749 lines 21-24) In this stanza Blake wanted to make the readers think about how the tyger is angry about the same person making the lamb and the tyger. Clearly, the tyger is more experienced based on all the things that Blake wrote in the