Reading them separately, The Lamb and The Tyger from Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake succinctly defines two different creatures. They are two diverse creations by One Creator. And now, they co-exist in this world that thinks they couldn’t be a perfect pair.
A lamb which lives in a pasture as a tamed animal symbolizes purity or spotlessness because of its white covering. It is an innocent creature for it is young and new to the world. And when you see one, you can easily see the harmlessness in its appearance. While a tiger is an animal that conspicuously breathes in the forest and is classified as a wild one. It is fierce and at times, bruised for it engages in food wars with other predators. And it is a very great risk to have them as a pet.
As the title of the song by Blake, innocence and experience always go hand in hand. For in human nature, we are forever innocent and experienced. To know our limits or boundaries that the more I know of so many things, the more I know that I don’t know so many things. This statement in Philosophy about self-examination clearly justifies how innocence and experience co-exist in every human. For one can never be omniscient about everything. It is only the One Creator that is capable of doing that. Because of the diversity of His creations, there came the possibility of both, lamb and tiger, existing despite the terror in it. The tyger was for me, a necessary evil for the lamb’s existence. A necessary evil which one can’t take away because they were really meant to be there. The lamb and the tyger is truly a pair that can’t be put into asunder.
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