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The Conflict William Blake (1757-1827) was a master at the English language, espically when it came to poetry, and often wrote on issues that are still important today. In his best works, “Songs of Innocence” and “Songs of Experience,” Blake uses his poetic talent to address the political and relgious ideas of his age. The poems “The Lamb” and “The Tyger,” published in Songs of Innocence and of Experience, uses the symbolism of two different animals to explain how all things, good and evil, come from God. William Blake often used two different poems to prove or argue a point. His poems “The Lamb” and “The Tyger” contrasts two animals to make the reader think, “How can God make something as good as a lamb and something as evil as a tiger?” The lamb, symbolizing good, is often the pray for such animals as the tiger, symbolizing evil