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Using Animals Symbolically by Using Poetic Devices Essay

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Using Animals Symbolically by Using Poetic Devices

I will be discussing the ways in which the poets use animals symbolically by using poetic devices. The three poems that I have chosen are “The Tyger” by William Blake, “The Eagle” by Alfred, Lord
Tennyson. Lastly, Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Alfred Lord
Tennyson has used an image of an eagle to give the reader an image of a man standing on a cliff top waiting for his world to fall around him. He is in a desolate area; there is no society near him “ringed with the azure world. He stands”. He watches the sea pass lower than him his world collapses beneath him n he falls.

“And like a thunderbolt he falls”

The sun has symbolized God. And his closeness to the eagle. …show more content…

However, the poem is trying to tell us that the eagle is standing “close to the sun in lonely lands” and that the enormous sea is beneath him. These are the ways that the poet has used the eagle symbolically and to illustrate his strength and power standing high in the sky.

“Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright”

This is an example from “The Tyger”

Metaphors of fire and blazing are emphasize by duplication of the “B” sound. The “B” sound makes it stronger and powerful to use.

My second choice is “Pied Beauty”. Gerard Manley Hopkins who was born in 1844 wrote this poem. The poem is tells us about all the different creatures that God has shaped. Explaining how for many belongings in nature there is a contradictory. He is also telling the reader that we should be thankful towards it and the entire God gifted.

In the poem, there are uses of some oxymoron’s by using them it shows the different extremes that exist within nature. This is similar to the Tyger. In addition, that shows the readers that to

keep the balance on the planet God has created an opposite. “Adazzle, dim”. “With swift, slow; sweet, sour”

He uses animals as one of God’s gift for our nature and used them symbolically for the exquisiteness of the planet.

My third choice of poem is “The Tyger” written by William Blake. This poem shows the evilness of the

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