Comparison Of The Lamb And The Tyger

The poem, The Tyger, contrasts innocence and experience, and good and evil. The description of the tiger in the poem is as a destructive, horrid creature. The original drawing on the poem shows a smiling, cuddly tiger which is quite the contrast to the tiger described in the poem. This picture might suggest a misunderstanding of the tiger and perhaps the fears that arouse from the poem are unjustified. This poem contrasts the tiger with a lamb which often symbolizes innocence, Jesus, and good. The tiger is perceived as evil or demonic. Blake suggest that the lamb and the tiger have the same creator and in a way states that the tiger might also have the ability to have the benign characteristics of the lamb. The tiger initially appears as a beautiful image but as the poem progresses, it explores a perfectively beautiful yet destructive symbol that represents the presence of evil in the world. In the poem, Blake writes: " What immortal hand or eye, / Could frame thy fearful symmetry (4-5)." It is hard to determine if the tiger is solely evil or good.

"The Mother," by Gwendolyn Brooks, is a sorrowful, distressing poem about a mother who has experienced numerous abortions. While reading the poem, you can feel the pain, heartache, distress and grief she is feeling. She is both remorseful and regretful; nevertheless, she explains that she had no other alternative. It is a sentimental and heart wrenching poem where she talks about not being able to experience or do things with the children that she aborted -- things that people who have children often take for granted. Perhaps this poem is a reflection of what many women in society are feeling.

The first line in the poem says, “Tyger Tyger, burning bright.” By Blake repeating the word Tyger twice, it feels to the reader as if we are speaking directly to the tiger. The

In the poem, Blake uses a tiger because it is one of the most disheartening animals on land. With experience comes evil. When Blake asks in line 20 “Did he who make the Lamb make thee?” He speculates if God, who is the creator of something so innocent, could create something so ferocious and experienced. The tiger also symbolizes fire. The words “burning,” “fire,” and “furnace” is used within the poem to express the evil in the fire.

Blake conveys the theme of another's actions being the reason for sadistic tendencies through characterization as well. The poem “A Poison Tree” tells of a man whose anger festers until he

“The Tyger” by William Blake In William Blake’s “The Tyger” the tone shifts from harsh to calm and conveys the theme of the beauty and danger shown in the tiger’s character .The narrator starts describing the tiger as just a normal tiger, but eventually his tone changes to a more calm point of view. This shows that he has more of a connection to the tiger by the end. The tiger changes from being a normal tiger to being compared to many different things, which represent what he thinks of the tiger. In the poem, “ The Tyger” by William Blake the tone helps the narrator describe the beauty and danger in a tiger.

Blake was considered a romantic poet because of his use of symbolism, emotions, and imagination. Throughout the entire poem, Blake uses many symbols to show innocence. Blake also portrayed his emotions and thoughts about how he feels about innocence, or the lack of innocence, in his society. A way that he used his imagination was by Tom’s

William Blake was a painter, engraver and poet of the Romantic era, who lived and worked in London. Many of Blake’s famous poems reside in his published collection of poems titled Songs of Innocence and of Experience. This collection portrays the two different states of the human soul, good and evil. Many poems in the Songs of Innocence have a counterpart poem in the Songs of Experience. The poem “A Poison Tree” is found in the Songs of Experience and it delves into the mind of man tainted with sin and corruption that comes with experience. In a simple and creative style, the religious theology of the Fall of Man is brought to life. The poem tells the story of how man fell from a state of innocence to impurity, focusing on the harmful repercussions of suppressed anger. Blake utilities many literary devices to successfully characterizes anger as an antagonist with taunting power.

Both the poems represent the different aspects of god. The Tyger is mentioned mentioned as “shining bright” but as the poem progresses it tells us that the Tyger is very dangerous and when you compare the Lamb and the Tyger it seems as though they as say, if god could create something as sweet and pure as a lamb then why would he create something as destructive as a Tyger. This is why the Tyger is paired with fire in the poem. The fire is a destructive force that everyone fears. The fire is also very powerful. This is why the Tyger was made in the furnace, because just like the fire the Tyger is fierce and dangerous. The person reading the poem even seems confused and even a little tramaised at the Tyger, asking themselves, “oh what chain” and “oh what hammer”. The speaking is distraught wondering why the Tyger even exists, because it is so deadly. It is hear where the child in the Lamb is grown. The child went from being very innocent and having the answer of creation to having nothing but questions, asking who made this Tyger. With this we can assume that the author intended for the child in the Lamb and the adult in the Tyger to be the same character in different stages of their

William Blake’s poetry is considered through the Romantics era and they access through the sublime. The Romantics poetry through the sublime is beyond comprehension and spiritual fullness. A major common theme is a nature (agnostic religion). In William Blake’s poem “The Tyger” he describes the tiger as a creature that was created by a higher power some time before. In Blake’s poem he questions, “What immortal hand or eye/ Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?” (Blake 22-23). He describes the tiger as a form of symmetry that can be seen as evil, yet have intriguing features such as those that make the tiger a beautiful creation. Blake also questions if that the higher being who created the tiger also created all else around the world such as a human being. Blake shifts his first stanzas from the tiger to the creator. Not only is he questioning who created the tiger, but he is also describing the beauty and evil of the world. The beauty that the Romantics believe in is nature and one evil seen through the world is materialism that distract humans from the beauty of nature 's gifts. He believes that people lose touch with spirituality when haven’t given to nature. Blake also illustrated his own works through

William Blake’s The Tyger, in my opinion, is an intriguing poem that looks at the idea of how God is a mystery and how humanity is at a loss to fully understand his creations by contemplating the forging of a beautiful yet ferocious tiger. Blake begins the poem by beginning a conversation with the tiger and almost immediately begins his questions of who could make such a fierce creature. He wonders if God could really create such a creature or maybe it is a creature produced from a darker source. Blake also refers to the tiger as a form of art, almost as if the creator made the tiger perfectly. The image of a blacksmith is also given through the poem as Blake refers to a blacksmith’s common tools and

William Blake builds on the general perception that all living entities must reflect its creator in some manner. This is to say that there is a part of God in the creation of the tiger. Blake presents this through the first stanza by introducing the tiger and deduces that such a beast must have been created by what he refers to as an “immortal hand”. God, the creator, is supposed to be benevolent, but why would a benevolent God create something as violent as the tiger? Blake later goes on to write the line, “What dread hand? & what dread feet?” (12) which implies that God is not actually compassionate as people visualize him out to be as the creator’s hand is considered to be “dread”. This perception of God allows readers to pose a question such as, “What part of God appears in something as fearful and violent as the tiger?” God is shown to be a benign figure, but the vivid image Blake paints of the tiger presents itself as evidence against such a view.

Almost everyone at some particular point in his or her life has challenged the existence of God. This may happen for a number of reasons. For example he or she might have been at a point in their life when their faith alone was just not enough for them to believe or they question why God would make the maleficent and the good in this world. Through the utilization of Symbols coupled with rhetorical questions and allusions to Greek mythology Blake illustrates creation(good) and destruction(evil) are one force and are made by the same force.

Packed with vivid imagery, “The Tyger” remains an interesting read after many times through. Starring in this poem, the tiger surrounded by harsh and often aggressive imagery is portrayed in a way that inspires fear. For example, when describing the eyes of this tiger, instead of a morning sun or a light, Mr. Blake writes the eyes burn with fire! Throughout the rest of the poem fire is continuously chosen as a description of this tiger, alluding to the inability to control and unpredictable nature of the flame. Things unknown tend to frighten people; William took full advantage of this by writing a poem full of questions. Readers will then not obtain a full grasp of what this unpredictable character is capable of. As if this all would not make a good poem on its own, the contrast of the tiger with the lamb shows the magnitude of strengthen and ferocity compared to the vulnerable innocent lamb. Writers trying to show power or weakness through characters could take a lesson from William Blake and his mastery in crafting

William Blake wrote Strain of Artlessness a poetry collection written from the child’s point of view. After six years Blake wrote songs of Experience contains many verse forms in answer to ones from Naturalness, suggesting ironic contrasts as the child matures and learns of such concept as reverence and envy. Such as “The Tiger (Merriman.C.D).