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Compare and contract William Blake’s poems “The Tiger” and “The Lamb”. Blake was born in London in 1757. He became a poet, artist and an engraver. He loved London very much, the sights, sounds and smells were a big inspiration to his poetry. William was a radical outsider. He rebelled against all institutions, schools, the church and the monarchy. He was religious but hated organized religion. Songs of Innocence was published in 1789. This was a collection of poems all about lambs, children and the happy things in live. Then he published a collection of poems called Songs of Experience, which was published in 1794. These poems where about more adult things like religion, the way that adults had to work and the way that the industrial revolution came into the perspective. These two collections contain some of the best-known poems in the English language. Blake really explores the contradicting stakes of innocence and experience. The Lamb from Songs of Innocence and The Tiger fro