Some may argue that William Blake got his fondness of writing about Christianity in these two poems from experiences of his past. According to Contemporary Authors Online, Blake “had vague memories of having been visited by Jesus and Socrates” (Gale, Paragraph 2). The origin of his ideas for writing “The Lamb” can be traced back to this experience because all the things he writes about God. One peculiar characteristic of Blake´s poems is the creative situations that he manages to create in his works. The reason behind this is his work as an engraver. During his apprenticeship with an engraver, he was sent to work at Westminster Abbey where the Gothic appeal of the church, “influenced Blake's imagination and his artistic style” (Gale, Paragraph 3). “The Tyger” shows a different aspect of Blake´s writing and shows the opposite of what “The Lamb” represented. …show more content…
Andrew Green explains in his essay that for Blake´s poems to be successful he had to take advantage of his visions from a young age. He claims that “(t)he visionary world is an expression of the immortal and the eternal” (Green, Paragraph 4). This allowed Blake to look past the normal happenings in life and get inspiration from situations not everybody experienced, like the visions. Writing these types of poems gave Blake the ability to tell readers a story through his eyes. As Green explains it, Blake´s poems showed “an internal mechanism, a means by which the physical realities of existence are converted into personal spiritual development” (Green, Paragraph 16). As described previously, Blake´s works are a representation of what he saw and what he felt throughout his life. By using poetry, he was able to communicate to others a different version of several