... , 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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... visions, with a short historical interlude inserted between visions 3 and 4 in which the official reaction of the northern kingdom becomes apparent. In a few deft strokes, part 4 paints a glowing picture of the bright future in store for Israel if the nation returns to the Lord in wholehearted repentance and reformation, and accepts her divinely appointed role. In Amos 9 verse 1 "I saw the Lord standing ... evil until their day of judgment at God's White Throne. They will then be thrown into the lake of fire. Romans So why all the violence? All the blood and burning in the sacred texts?...

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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 ...

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