... as if awestruck, on the origins of the Tyger. He asks: "In what distant deeps or skies. / Burnt the fire of thine eyes? / On what wings dare he aspire? / What the hand dare seize the fire" wondering where in the universe could the Tyger's eyes have been created and who dared handle that ... fire. "And what shoulder, & what art, / Could twist the sinews of thy heart," questions the speaker, pondering what kind of physical ... Blake writes: "Did he who made the Lamb make thee?" asking incredulously if it was the same God who created the innocence of human nature, represented by the Lamb, w...

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• Grade Level: High School

... 's like the seventh plague that God sent to Egypt. It comes to take comes first in our lives then recedes like a wisp of smoke. But it leaves a scar forged to the heart and soul of the one who is left behind. Boaz Negro is a blind man. Fate has taken away his wife, Angelina, and his three sons. ... all of his apathy left him when his beloved son was slain. Yes, he lost his unquenchable exuberance. But it was replaced with a burning passion. A kind of fire that cannot be put out unless willed. The thought of finally having revenge on the assassin of his son kept him alive. Through hardshi...

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• Grade Level: High School