is Blake’s use of symbolism and imagery which contributes to these. The Tyger just goes to show that literature need not be divinely inspired in order to be spiritually though provoking. All the things that happen in the poem London are not suprising, considering that Blake was born and lived in London poverty from 1757-1827. He was a republican and was against the monarchy and probably the aristocracy who supported them. It is said that Blake had his own version of Christianity. Knowing this in not suprising that he wrote such a poem as ‘London,’ because he was talking about things that he knew and understood. “The Little Girl Lost,” is a tragic love between a girl and a boy and mainly a girl and her father. Blake conveys this tragedy through a structural six stanza lyrical poem that included a setting, characters, a plot, a climax, and a downfall...
