William Blake Response

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.

Tyger is a poem that strongly focuses on the concepts of religious beliefs and nature. The poem is made up of six stanzas all asking questions about how god could create such a thing and when he started, how he could continue to create such a beast. The first and last stanza of the poem are the same except, instead of asking who could create tiger he asks who dare create the tiger. Blake compares the creator to the blacksmith and uses the beat of the poem to represent god hammering the tiger into existence. Through out this poem Blake asks why god could create such a thing of beauty and sorrow and how humans could live in a world with both beauty and horror. This poem focuses on nature and god making it a great example of how romantics were influenced by their

The conditions of chimney sweeps were a horrible job and were often done by small children who were forced inside to clean their interiors. The poems, The Chimney Sweeper, written by William Blake describe with poetic devices how life as a chimney sweep was usually grueling work done by children who may not have known what harm could come to them. Throughout both poems, William Blake shows how young children were forced to work as chimney sweeps, yet they both use a unique style of poetic techniques, such as metaphor, rhyme pattern, repetition, multiple meaning, alliteration and point of view to establish the full effect of life as a chimney sweep. The poems are comparable in that they both have metaphors and a similar rhyme pattern.

At the very beginning of the poem, [we see] Blake castigates (the aristocrats of London who capitalize on the suffering of the poor/ impoverished workers,,,. So the poem starts with a criticism of laws relating to control and ownership)c4 as clearly expressed in the lines below:

The poem is mainly about the creation of a powerful and dreadful tiger. The poem starts with a description on the overall impression of the tiger; Blake admires the tiger’s “burning bright” and “fearful symmetry”. The Tyger's presence in "the forests of the night" further increases the mystery and power of the creature. The second stanza asked where the Tyger was created, and also create an image of “fire of thine eyes” to the reader. The second two lines in the stanza asked the question that where did the inspiration come to create the fire in the Tiger's eyes. Where did God get the courage to create such a powerful and violence beast? The stanza three continue question who/what the creator of the Tyger is. What “shoulder” have the strength

William Blake, born in London, England on November 28, 1775, was known for his poetry. Even though he lacked formal education, he became one of the best english poets. In the poem “Chimney Sweeper” by William Blake, there are many uses of biblical allusions. For example, in stanza 4 it states, “And by came an angel who had a bright key.” What this biblical allusion means is that an angel would take them away from their miserable lives which were worse than death, and bring them up to heaven. It is a biblical allusion because it talks about angels and death, and the key being the key to heaven. Another biblical allusion is in stanza 2, “There’s little Tom Dacre, who cried when his head, that curl’d like a lamb's back was shav’d.” This biblical

Throughout world history their have been and are many occurrences of society corruption and oppression of masses, such as the forcing of small children to sweep chimneys. Thus, William Blake’s Purpose in writing the two “The Chimney Sweeper” poems was to express his outrage at society for having oppressed and stolen the innocence of powerless children in forcing them to sweep. Both poems are similar in that he uses the actions and view point of the child speaker to express his rage against society, mostly through his verbal irony. However, the poems distinct in that one shares the view point of an innocent child who hasn’t yet fully experienced the corruption of society , whereas the other one is one of a more experienced child who

Although the tiger represents a magnificent creature physically because of its overall majesty, the tiger is also a very deadly creature. That point is made by Blake by referencing the lamb (Stanza 5, line 5). Blake’s poem could also be interpreted to evoke questions about the merits of social change which had just occurred in the America’s following the War of Independence with Britain and was now occurring in Europe in connection with the (very bloody) French Revolution. We also know that Blake was aware of the broader social changes taking place in England at the time with the start of the Industrial Revolution and the profound, somewhat negative changes that revolution had on the quality of life in England.

William Blake was an English engraver, painter, and poet of the early Romantic Age. Today, his works of poetry such as “The Tyger” and “The Little Girl Lost” are anthologized in books across the world (Mcgills). His works of art, ranging from watercolors to engravings, can be viewed on display in art museums from a multitude of countries (Britannica). Despite the fact that William Blake died an uncelebrated artist, the impact of his work can be found around the world in places ranging from picture books to religious theology.

Chimney Sweeper from Song of Innocence is an example by noticing that there is a young work force, where these children need to be small in order to fit down the chimney and are sold by their families. There crying of “weep, weep” is a sound device of romantic irony, Song of Experience, The Chimney Sweeper also talks about the “notes of woe”. Along with social class of these little children working this dangerous job in order to sustain some sort of income since they were of the lower class. Religion is being called upon with the character Tom Dacre, a new member of the sweepers. In lines thirteen and fourteen, “And by came an Angel who has a bright key, and he open’d the coffins & set them all free” this emphasizing that if you do your work that is given to you then you will be sent to heaven and be rewarded. Blake was anti-Christianity so he was going against this norm of religion

In Songs of Innocence and of Experience, the two poems “The Chimney Sweeper” highlight  the injustice during Blake’s time such as: poverty, child labour, and abuse. “The Chimney Sweeper” illustrates William Blake's understanding of 'innocence' and 'experience' by exposing the hypocritical nature of authority during the 1700s. This essay will begin with explaining Blake’s concept of ‘innocence’ and ‘experience’.

The archetype of this poem focuses on how aggressive and vicious the tiger is. It also can be seen as a more physical comparison such as, “Tyger Tyger, burning bright,” (line 1, page 749). Blake says the tiger is burning bright, but does not mean this literally, for he is comparing the color of the tiger to the color of fire. Blake does insult God for creating the creature because all it does is kill and destroy. The tiger also has more power. In which, the Songs of Experience poems are related to those that are leaders, fighters, and that are more outspoken; therefore, The Tyger fits more perfectly with that collection of

This poem consists of a community of poor chimney sweepers, the narrator of this poem being one of the many sweepers. This poem begins with the unfortunate events of the narrator himself and his description of how he came to be one of the chimney sweepers. Through the use of perfect language, Blake is able to capture the event and all of its emotion. The narrator starts by saying, “When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me…” Instantly, the readers feel sympathy for the narrator, knowing his childhood has not been the kindest. The almost perfect word choice allows readers to seep into the mind of the narrator as he continues his story. He says, “So your chimneys I sweep and in soot I sleep” (Blake 706). In the next stanza, the narrator describes a fellow chimney sweeper, Tom Dacre, and his heavenly dream.

William Blake was one of those 19th century figures who could have and should have been beatniks, along with Rimbaud, Verlaine, Manet, Cezanne and Whitman. He began his career as an engraver and artist, and was an apprentice to the highly original Romantic painter Henry Fuseli. In his own time he was valued as an artist, and created a set of watercolor illustrations for the Book of Job that were so wildly but subtly colored they would have looked perfectly at home in next month's issue of Wired.

The sight of an angel made William Blake the most celebrated poet of his time, it influenced in his poems and painting, which it became gothic to people and made him a spiritual person. William Blake was born over his father hosiery shop at 28 Broad Street, Golden Square, London in Nov. 28,1757. His father was James Blake a hosier, and his mother Catherine Wright Armitage Blake. (Blakearchive.org) William Blake, being mostly educated at home learned how to read and write by his mother and later on went to school. His parents watch that he was different from others and they didn’t push him to attend to school, the main reason why his mother decided to instruct him. “They did observe that he was different from his