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Tyger - William Blake - Coggle Diagram
Tyger - William Blake
Context
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“The Tyger” was written to express Blake's view on human's natural ferocity through comparison with a tiger in the jungle, an opposite depiction of the innocence found in “the Lamb”.
Tone/Language
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The fiery imagery used throughout the poem conjures the tiger’s aura of danger: fire equates to fear.
In the third and fourth stanzas, Blake introduces another central metaphor, explicitly drawing a comparison between God and a blacksmith.
The opening question enacts what will be the single dramatic gesture of the poem, and each subsequent stanza elaborates on this conception. Blake is building on the conventional idea that nature, like a work of art, must in some way contain a reflection of its creator.
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"On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand, dare seize the fire?"
"And what shoulder, & what art, Could twist the sinews of thy heart?"
Structure
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Form - The poem is comprised of six quatrains in rhymed couplets and the meter is regular and rhythmic,
Symbolism
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"immortal hand or eye"
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Perhaps referencing the establishment - indestructible, never ending
The tiger initially appears as a strikingly sensuous image. However, as the poem progresses, it takes on a symbolic character, and comes to embody the spiritual and moral problem the poem explores: perfectly beautiful and yet perfectly destructive, Blake’s tiger becomes the symbolic center for an investigation into the presence of evil in the world.
The 'Tyger' is a symbolic tiger which represents the fierce force in the human soul. It is created in the fire of imagination by the god who has a supreme imagination, spirituality and ideals.
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