Why do people often associates something that’s good or benevolent with God or Jesus Christ and disassociates/ questions those that are wicked or immoral? We can see in the poem, “The Lamb”, Blake readily associates the “lamb” with Jesus Christ because of its benevolent nature. However, Blake questions whether if the creator of the lamb was also the creator of the tygre because of its vile nature.

The last 2 lines of the poem say that hope doesn’t ask a “crumb” despite being in the most harshest places. Why is it that hope has to endure so much but it does not ask for anything back?

In the third stanza of the poem where it says “I’ve known her — from an ample nation” does the narrator of the story change? Or is it still being told from the perspective of the woman.

Why is tyger spelled the way it is? In both poems the child asks about who had made the animals, does this relate in someway to the powers of God?

Does the “little child” who is talking to the lamb in the poem “The lamb” also talk about the tyger, or is it from another person’s perspective. If not from another person’s perspective, has the child grown up and endured hardships which he then reflects upon when talking about “They Tyger”?

Does this drag on too long? Is there really anything to be significantly gained by each and every stanza?

He proclaims that human life is merely “a sleep and a forgetting”—that human beings dwell in a purer, more glorious realm before they enter the earth. Why does he think that as children we still retain memories of that place? and what significance does this have on how we grow up and forget the “magic”?

Aren’t most of your childhood memories a blur? Is it not that same “forgetting” that may lead us to believe that we once had a perfect perspective on life? After all, who likes to retain bad memories?

Wordsworth discusses the pure joy that children are able to experience because of their youth and innocence and he wonders why a child would want to rush into his adult years. It seems to be a commonly held belief that children are happier and more carefree than adults, but is it there actually any truth to this? Although adults are more aware than children, perhaps this awareness allows greater, purer experiences of happiness.

I didn’t write something over the weekend because it took me a while to understand this piece of writing. As I sat and contemplated on the true meaning of “Ode”, I realized that I was looking at it the wrong way. Ode uses nature as a metaphor for all thing beautiful and perfect in your life. I’m assuming that the piece continues to express to us that our appreciation for those things should be great, and never for granted. This is experience is expressed throughout the poem.