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To analyze the poetry, it is often essential to have some information about the background of the poet, and the environment of the writing. Often, the beliefs and views of the writer determine their work. William Blake appears to be no exception.
His poems are astonishingly ambitious, even for the Romantic Age, into which he survived. To comprehend Blake, we need to understand Blake himself, and the environment he was living in.
Blake, a self-taught London radical Protestant, was more than deeply read in the Bible. In the Talmudic phrase, He had “eaten those books” and they account for all but an insignificant part of his literary tradition, and indeed of his knowledge. So how he read the Bible is the one of background we need to understand before appreciating his work.
His strong beliefs about Christianity, specifically the deity of Christ and special creation, make his work interesting. However, Blake also uses many Greek symbols (Gods, Goddesses, etc) in his work which can further complicate and make it very difficult to determine what he actually holds to be true.
These symbols, both Christian and Pagan, are used in the two poems "The Lamb" and "The Tyger", which can cause confusion when read at face value, and we will have to use what we know about Blake in order to make an intelligent statement about the meaning of his poems. Are they really just a contrast between two animals, or is there a deeper meaning behind the symbolism?

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