Topic > Willaim Blake's Expressions of Society in His Works

William Blake, an extraordinary poet of Romanticism, could write an entertaining poem, but the poems also had a critic of society. Blake expressed how he saw society through his poetry and some of these poems can be spot on if you really start to analyze and look at society versus the poems. William Blake wrote many entertaining poems, most of them about Cretic society, and shows how the society was and still is today. In The Lamb and The Tyger by William Blake they show the different types of people in society, The Chimney Sweeper shows how children are hurt and Infant Sorrow shows the rebels in society. William Blake's two poems, The Lamb and The Tyger are two poems that show the different types of people in society. To begin in the poem The Lamb, this shows a very innocent and caring person. It is said in the poem "Little Lamb, God bless you". It means that such an innocent, kind and cute creature was created by God. This kind of person is also created by God, he is innocent, kind and cute just like the lamb. On the other hand, there is The Tyger, also written by William Blake. This poem shows a different kind of person in Blake's society. This person is angry, mean and very dangerous. In this specific poem he asks “What hand, dares to grasp the fire? And what shoulder and what art could twist the nerves of your heart? It is in this statement that Blake wonders what kind of person could create a monster like a tiger. Whereupon he ponders the question of whether God could have created something as hideous as a tiger when he had created something as innocent as a lamb. This shows the other type of person in society, someone who is also angry, mean and very dangerous like a tiger. Another,...... middle of paper......ty and this is what Blake is describing in this poem. Ultimately literature had an effect on society and how well it works, or how well it doesn't work. Like in The Lamb and The Tyger, there are different people in this world and there always will be. Just like there will always be lambs and tigers. The Chimney Sweep shows the sad life of an orphan as orphans actually became orphans. This is the same in today's society with how child labor laws are used to protect children, so this kind of thing will never happen again. William Blake's final poem Infant Sorrow shows the way young people of all ages rebel against society, parents, and even the world itself. This phenomenon still occurs every day in today's society and will most likely continue to go forward. This is how William Blake managed to write an extraordinary poem and at the same time a cretic society to the end.