... 80), but for a different reason to his. Bloom claims that Blake was "uninterested in moral evil" (Bloom, 1963: 80), his purpose was more aesthetic as he felt Milton had failed in writing Paradise Lost. Whereas I think that Blake's poetic vision was profoundly unique. Of course he was influenced by different ideas, but the notion of him adopting a certain ideology seems wrong. ... of the world under Urizen's power; trapped. No solutions are offered to his law of "solid without fluctuation"; until Milton. Milton is a complex expression of Blake's on-going fight against orthodoxy. Blake emp...

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... beast. Moreover, a number of imageries such as "fire", "heat", and "furnace", are said to be symbolic for Hell and destruction. So the reference to Milton`s Paradise Lost that opens the fifth stanza emphasis on the devil`s nature of humans. The poem reveals that the tiger is exceptionally beautiful and at the same time dreadful because of its ... poem addresses not only the "little lamb", but the people in general. Thus the simple child`s question turns into a question about the existence of man. "The pastoral paradise of The Lamb is juxtaposed with the industrial furnace of The Tyger" ...

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