The poems "The Lamb" and "The Tyger" were written by English poet William Blake. The works were eventually published in a volume called <em>Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul. </em>This encourages us to think of the two poems as representing opposite sides of the human soul, as the title states. On the one hand, the lamb represents "innocence," while the tiger represents "experience."
