ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -While a tiger represents mystery and fear, a lamb symbolizes innocence and morality. Similarly to “The Tyger, ” this poem focuses on the animal’s creator. However, the speaker describes the lamb as a child when he asks who “Gave thee clothing of delight, / Softest clothing wooly bright; ” (5-6).

Detailed explanation-2: -In the very opening lyric Blake makes connection with the Christ – child through the symbol of Lamb. We are called by His name’. God is the divine presence which exists in the child and the lamb and potentially is every man and woman. In this poem, the lamb and the child are the symbol of mystical knowledge.