... , he then began to beat himself up and wonder if he would ever be given the chance again to be a father. This paper will explore the rhyming words, elegy, emotive vocabulary, exclamation and imagery in "On My First Son." As the poem goes on, we may place ourselves in the father's shoes. His only son died at such an ... his son. Using rhyme in poetry gives it a repetitive quality, allowing it to gain a songlike quality, and it is often used to make the poems easier to remember. The emotive vocabulary shows Ben's emotions and how he is feeling. By reading the poem we can tell that he has a...

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... , / In what furnace was thy brain? / What the anvil? what dread grasp. / Dare its deadly terrors clasp?" Here, he compares the divine creator of the fearsome Tyger to a blacksmith, using vocabulary that one associates with the trade: hammer, anvil, chain, and furnace. Further, Blake writes: "Did he who made the Lamb make thee?" asking incredulously if it was the same God ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School