Blake, “The Lamb” and “The Tyger”

If it is true from the Bible that “For God so loved the world,” why are people referred to lambs and tigers, as lambs are the majority who do not have any advantage and tigers the ones who are already one step ahead of others from the moment of birth? Why are people put into different classes?

 

“When the stars threw down their spears

And water’d heaven with their tears:

Did he smile his work to see?

Did he who made the Lmab make thee?”

 

(From Blake, “The Tyger”)

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