A new approach to literature and art that emerged in the late 18th century was the beginning of the Romantic movement. This was the first time that poets and authors could strive for originality. The Romantic era was more open to myth, mysticism, and spirituality than the Enlightenment era had ever been. William Blake was a Romantic poet. Romanticism was a movement characterized primarily by its rejection of Enlightenment ideologies and scientific methods, as well as its emphasis on the natural world, emotions, art, and personal expression. Growing up, Blake's childhood was dominated by spiritual visions that influenced his works and personal life. As a child he said he saw a tree full of angels. He was a strong believer in liberty and freedom for all, including women. He stirred controversy with his unconventional views on church and state. Blake's personal ideas on theological and spiritual matters seep into his own works. Blake trusted in the correspondence between the physical world and the spiritual world, he was able to do this by using poetic metaphors and expressing his beliefs. Blake was able to integrate the Bible and other Christian traditions into his mythology. Romanticism “is a phenomenon characterized by dependence on the imagination and subjectivity of the approach, by freedom of thought and expression, by an idealization of nature”. It has been said that the Romantics wrote with many of the following characteristics: return to nature, idealization of women and children, interest in the past, defense of personal freedom, melancholy, the supernatural, imagination and emotion. The wars between England and France and the French Revolution exerted a huge influence on many writers during... middle of paper... This was something that many writers did not do in his time. Blake questions God and his reasoning as to why he created someone as ferocious and scary as a tiger. Blake was trying to show the fact that evil, violence and terror exist in the world. The lamb is used to show the innocence, purity and peace found in the world. These two poems are able to show individualism and experience as part of the time period. The lamb is used to be the symbol of an innocent child. Use the lamb to show innocence as Jesus Christ did in the Bible. Blake's poetry illustrates the core values ​​and morals of Christianity, found in the Bible. The Romantic period was extremely lively and rich in literary criticism and non-fiction prose. Blake moves back and forth between innocence and experience through his poetry in Song of Innocence and Song of Experience.