... him, a gentle and caring creature, surrounded by pastoral imagery. In "The Tyger" however, the imagery changes, the focus is on the blazing fire, burning out of a dark sky, and the elusive, yet powerfully exhilarating Tyger. The change from innocence to experience is well documented, and serves to comment on ... as the one who: "Gave thee life and bid thee feed By the stream and o'er the mead: Gave thee clothing of delight Softest clothing wooly, bright: Gave thee such a tender voice, Making all the vales rejoice." The constant repetition of the word "Gave" emphasises the child's vision...

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• Grade Level: High School

... saw in Nature, situations and images which referred to and often questioned human existence. This can be seen through several images which Blake has evoked through "The Tyger", such as " burning bright; In the forests of the night- Also in this line there is a first reference to fire which is a constant recurring theme in the poem. There was an emphasis upon imagination ... uses layers of rhetorical questioning and symbols to lead the responder to their own conclusion. The refrain of "Tyger, Tyger burning bright" is emphasized by alliteration because it is important to note that the hor...

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• Grade Level: High School

... ;The Lamb" was written to show that God could be fierce and meek at the same time. Another sign in the poem could be the word bright, "Softest clothing, wooly, bright". The word bright in "The Tyger" was used to bring out the power that the tiger has and it was used to describe the fierceness of the ... tiger. In "The Lamb" the brightness of the lamb is one of purity itself, "The effect of bright in "The Lamb" is less dramatic. Blake's "The Tyger" is the contrast poem to "The Lamb". "The Tyger" is the experience of the loss of innocence that "The ... addresses. Blake builds on the idea ...

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... , a child, Jesus, or sacrifice. The poem compliments God for making such a beautiful being as lamb. Blake personifies the lamb as a naive animal that is pure like its "softest clothing wooly, bright,"" and has a "tender voice-. In the poem the lamb was asked if it knew who had created it. It was asked this question as it was so "meek- and "mild ... "tigers- by the media, and it is possible that the poem was written as a treatise on complex human nature . The poem begins with the opening hurdle of metaphor, "Tyger Tyger, burning bright-. The poem describes the tiger as being a symbol of e...

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... in the first poem, a child forced into labor. Tom, an innocent child, shares his dreams of angels and the salvation of the sweeps: "And by came an angel who had a bright key, And he open'd the coffins & set them all free;" This sort of social consciousness in literature, stimulated by the French Revolution, also allows Blake to show in the second ... denial and then the reality to expose the hypocrisy. 2. In "The Tyger" Blake challenges his readers to face the evil of the "tyger" through his word choices. Words such as burning, fire, dread, hammer, furnace, and terrors is used by Blake ...

• Word Count: 1853
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• Grade Level: High School