Blake's Use Of Syntax And Figurative Language In The Tyger

When I went in Junior High, I was friend with a girl who would self-harm herself. At first, I only noticed one or two cuts on her wrist, but I realized that as the school year progressed, the number of cuts doubled, then tripled, then quadrupled, until I could not keep count anymore. As her hatred toward her imperfections grew, her scars became more visible, and it was harder for her to hide them. Similar to my friend’s situation, in the novel A Separate Peace, John Knowles uses similes to express the theme that growth does not always result in a good outcome; whereas, William Blake uses symbols and metaphors to develop the same message in “A Poison Tree”.

Where “The Lamb” used images of soft, white wool, and tender voices, “The Tyger” mirrors those ideologies with fire, metal, and dread to invoke experience. Archetypes of power and experience, which are the opposite of innocence, make up the meanings behind this poem. Blake goes as far as to reference the other poem in the line “Did he who made the Lamb make thee?” (Blake) A line that in a mordant tone states that such an evil as the tiger could not have been made by the same being who made something as pure as the Lamb. Here, we

On January 1st, 2017, a gang held an alleyway waiting for people to come through so they and take their money. The alley was very dark. People came through the alley at nights and trashed the alley, cracking windows, leaving cigarettes on the dirty spray-painted ground littered with sharp shards of glass from a broken window. Their leader, Kole Blazer, was there in the rooftops, waiting for someone to come through, when he saw someone betray his gang: Mike Blazer, his brother. Kole was taller than him by only a few inches. He had brown hair, freckles, blue eyes, more muscular than his brother who was always the weaker one, but they were twins and he wanted to keep a secret. His brother betrayed them and now it’s time for payback.

In the historical analysis I read that “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”. We see this ferocity directly in lines 5-8, “In what distant deeps or skies, Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand, dare seize the fire?” This poem echoes the visions Blake had when he was a child.

William Blake's poem, "The Tyger," create striking images used to question religion and contrast good and evil. The Tyger could be inspiration, the divine, artistic creation, history, or vision itself. Creating a imagery of fire evokes the fierceness and potential danger of the tiger, which itself represents what is evil or dreaded. " Tyger Tyger, burning bright… In the forests of the night," Blake begins, conjuring the image of a tiger's eyes burning in the darkness. "

such a terrifying beast?” and “Who is God who dares to make such a terrifying

Blake is a strong charcter throughout the book. He shows a lot of actions that make it seem like he might be the one who killed Courtney and Josh. Arron goes after Blake and accuses him, right after they find the dead bodies. After the murder happened Josh was very distantant from everyone. The group of friends still alive went out to dinner and hungout. Blake was the odd one he did not want to go out to dinner or lunch with them. Courtney went up to the cabin and wante to search for clues (Preston, 101). When she got there Blake was there, she decided to ask him if he wanted to help her search for clues. He kind of avoided the sitation and did not say anything. After the murder happened he was a little edgey. Kyle immeatly blammed Blake, they

show a large amount of similarity, as well as differences, both in the way he

In William Blake's Poem “The Chimney Sweeper”, Blake uses allusions, symbols, and metaphor to convey his theme of Innocence, Death, and Youth. With this Blake also goes in depth about the speakers childhood. Finally Blake ends with a dream and how innocence is a major part of the poem. Blake’s foundation of this poem relies on biblical allusions which provide the poem with a theme of innocence and, without them, Blake may have just had an ordinary poem with no deeper meaning in it.

''The Tyger'' I had a hard time trying to figure what this poem was about. I am really not good at figuring

The setting of the poem is abstract "forest of the night" and "distant deeps or skies", which makes the Tyger and Him be in the spotlight. The Tyger is described with imageries of fire: it is "burning bright" and in its eyes "burnt the fire". The beast is ferocious, wroth, and dangerous just like the fire itself.

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 my senior year of high school, in English, we read William Blake’s “The Tyger,” from his Songs of Experience. Despite the fact that it is older English, making it harder to understand, it’s still a powerful poem. “They Tyger” takes a few readings to get the full impact, by even the first line captivates “Tyger Tyger, burning bright.” You don’t know if the author is scared, awed, or maybe a little of both. The poem strengthens in tone as you read, from questioning, to something harder and fierce.

The poet feels that the hawk is strong and focused as is shown on the

The poem opens up with the words, “Tyger Tyger, burning bright,” which in this case makes the words Tyger appear to the reader as if the author is speaking directly to the Tyger and sets up the theme of night along with which come darkness and evil. The words “burning bright” are used as a comparison to the Tyger. Blake chooses fire to be compared to the Tyger because both are known to be harmful, strong, wild, forceful, and destructive. In a way, they also resemble each other in looks, as a Tyger in the dark, looks like a fire because of its orange stripes. The third and fourth lines aske the first unanswered question: What creator has the ability to make something with such “fearful symmetry” (4)? The second stanza asks the same question but in a completely different way, wondering where the Tyger came from. In lines 10 and 20, Blake’s asks two questions. These questions are different from the rest, he asks, “Did he smile his work to see? /Did he who made the lamb make thee?’’ (19, 20) These lines are asking if the creator was happy with his work of such destructive soul, it also asks if the creator of the lamb was also the creator of the Tyger. You can look at this as if Blake was trying to connect the evil Tyger with the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ. The last lines ask the same question as the first, who could and who would create the Tyger.