Analysis of the Image in The Tyger from the Perspective of Blake’s Composite Art of Poetry and Painting

William Blake’s poetry collections Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience have always been studied by later generations. They not only reflect Blake’s deep understanding and depiction of the inner side of human nature, but also his profound understanding and analysis of religion and philosophy. As a printmaker, however, Blake’s paintings are not just subordinate parts of poetry. From the perspective of Blake’s composite art of poetry and painting, the author intends to analyze the image tiger in Songs of Experience by combining the poem text and the illustration of The Tyger, and comparing the poem text of The Tyger and The Lamb. The image of tiger in the poem and in the painting is contradictory, which reflects Blake’s contradictory feelings of worship and suspicion of the Creator, and conveys his humanistic thought of pursuing spiritual creativity and opposing rational oppression.