Poems, ancient, artistic ways of expressing feelings through the art of beautiful, flowing hymns, chill with their enthralling songs. They stretch centuries back and still today remain a common practice. However, many of the famous poets are not around today to witness the roaring flame that poems have set to the forest of littérateurs. William Blake and John Donne, being included in the bucket of famous poets, reflect some of the most profound poets of their day, having engraved their name into the wet cement of the universe. Many of their poems have a common factor—God. “The Tyger” and “The Lamb” by William Blake, and “Batter my heart, three-person’d God” by John Donne, serve as examples of poems that express the Divine Creator as a Blacksmith, a Lifegiver, and a Glassblower. …show more content…
The poem follows a standard four-line-for-each-stanza poem, but the meat of the poem can be defined as anything but standard. It tells the tale of the tiger, asking questions about how it got formed, who made it, and why. William poetically describes God as a blacksmith, shaping a fierce weapon of destruction. At the same time, he wonders what kind of god the Creator must be in order to hammer something so powerful and malign. Still, he wonders if a Blacksmith such as He who made the Lamb could have possibly made a terror such as the Tyger. “The Lamb” is a poem also written by William Blake. In this poem, the poet talks to a little lamb, asking about the Creator and if the lamb knows He made him. He continues to show the lamb how, as William describes, the Lifegiver gave him all his comforts and provisions. However, the Lifegiver not only provides; He also sacrificed for the little lamb, coming down as a little child. Quite different from the Blacksmith, the Lifegiver gives life through meekness and gentleness. Yet through his tenderness, He makes all the vales rejoice with his immense