
Blake told his story also with his drawing, pictures and paintings: he was an engraver and visual art was his main means of expression. His poems are images of life, of creature, metaphor of what life means.
Here is an example of one of his Illuminated pages: the poem The Lamb is a sort of nursery rhyme, of lullaby for children, made of questions and answers about Christ’ life and his task among human beings. Opposed to The Lamb is The Tyger: a succession of questions about the nature of a creature who was made by the same hand who made the lamb, the same hand which created a mild and weak animal, created a cruel, violent beast .