At the heart of Blake's "The Lamb" and "The Tyger" is the question of the nature of God. The idea is that the same God who made the lamb also made the tiger, so unless we are willing to suggest that God created evil, the tiger must not be "evil" in the traditional sense. The fact that the same God makes both suggests that they just represent two different sides of God, just two different aspects of existence. To Blake, evil isn't evil, it's just the other side of good.
Blake does not believe in dichotomies, in dividing a human being or existence into separate parts. Human beings are not either completely good or completely evil, for instance, just as women are not completely pure or completely contaminated based on their sexual history. Dichotomies in human beings do not exist, just as they don't exist in God.
The thinkers of the neoclassical period emphasized reason. They were predominately deists. They were not so interested in the nature of God as Blake. Reason was their god.
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