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Poetry Analysis - The Tyger

            The Tyger is one of the best poems from the romanticism era which was during the late 18th century and the early 19th century. The Tyger was one of William Blakes most famous poems and is still very popular today. During the romanticism era they focused their writing on emotion and imagination but William Blake was more of a gothic writer during this era which is a style of writing that was drawn out of romantic writing. In The Tyger William blake uses many different types of literary devices such as repetition, rhetorical questions and symbolism.
             When we look at the first stanza of the poem The Tyger you will notice that it uses repetition as one of the main literary devices with the first words saying Tyger Tyger (Blake 1). This is an example of the literary device repetition because it is using the same words in sequence. Then at the end of the poem he repeats the same stanza as the first stanza which also shows repetition. William blake is using repetition to show the importance of of those words and it makes your eyes draw to the words that are repeated more than once. When he repeated the first stanza at the end of the paragraph this made the reader think about that line and also forcing the reader to read it one more time so you will notice the importance of what the stanza had to say. .
             In the third stanza they use the literary device of a rhetorical question. The last two lines of the third stanza is a perfect example of a rhetorical question when it says What dread hand? & what dread feet? (Blake 12) which is making the reader think about those questions but not ever really formally answering the question in the poem and the reader has to come up with their own right answer to the question. He also uses a rhetorical question in the last line of the second stanza which says What the hand, dare seize the fire? (Blake 8). Using the literary device rhetorical question really gets the reader engaged in to the poem because it forces them to think for themselves and come up with answers that are never actually told in the story.


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  • Grade Level: High School

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