... nature`s beauty are also themes, the poets from the Romantic period are interested in. William Blake writes about those topics in his collections Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. Many of the poems in Songs of Innocence have corresponding poems in Songs of Experience. The first collection shows the innocent child`s outlook ... , belongs to a power beyond the control of human agents" (Burowski). However, the religious aspect in both poems cannot be denied. In the second stanza of The Tyger we can find a reference to the Greek mythology and more specifically the myth of Prometheu...

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... evident. The image seems to be almost that of a blazing inferno, reminiscent of the imagery of the inferno of hell. However the imagery of fire, although not as obvious can be extended. The uses of the words "what the hand dare seize the fire" seems to have echoes of The Prometheus Myth. The myth as it goes in Greek mythology, depicts a rebellious Titan, who stole fire from Olympus ... . The story symbolised a revolt against the Gods and the steeling of the fire resulted in the savior of man. The former is applicable to Blake's poem. The poem is from the perspective of experience, an adu...

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