William Blake for me is the most sublimely unique artist, for the simple fact that he is the one artist who carved out his poems together with exquisite paintings and insisted on getting them printed by dint of illuminated paintings with the help of copper plates etched out by him. His absolute dependence on the Bible as the Great Code of Art is well known. The present study is an in-depth analysis of the two poems "The Lamb" and "The Tyger" against the background of the Bible, and set in the context of his idea of Innocence and Experience and at the same time deeming the text of the poems together with the painting on his illuminated page of that poem. A better understanding of these two poems is purported at by having recourse to them in this three-fold way. The article tries to establish that the answer to Blake's rhetorical question "Did he who make the Lamb make thee?" is in the positive.

Although William Blake was highly eclectic and drawing from multifarious sources, religious system, philosophical thoughts and traditions, the Bible was Blake’s most predominant concern. Throughout his life of meticulous and tedious composite art Blake aimed at decoding the Bible as the Great Code of Art for helping people to be imaginative and visionary like Jesus Christ. Both in his complex and sophisticated prophetic works, meant for the illuminated people, and in his deceptively simple lyrics of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience, meant for the rank and file of society, Blake did keep this up. The present study is an attempt to focus on this element, by delving deep into the texts and designs of the Introductions of Songs of Innocence as well as of Songs of Experience, inevitably considering the totality of Blake’s works and in the special context of their marked allegiance or affinity to the themes and symbols from the Bible. Blake visualized a blend of lamblike meekness and mildness with the ferocity of tigers of wrath for having the human form divine perfect.