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    novel Life of Pi, the protagonist is lost at sea with no one else, but a tiger named Richard Parker. Throughout this novel, the protagonist sees him with a differing perspective from the one he had of him growing up. In Blake’s work The tyger, he describes the tyger in such a way, that one would think it was a heavenly figure, not just a very large feline.Nonetheless, the qualities of the tiger exemplified in both works include the swift form of attack, terrifying prowess, and majestic strength.

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    cerebral nor calculated, but totally spontaneous. William Blake was “the most spiritual of artists”; he once said his life and work are a confusion of contraries: infinite patience and painstaking workmanship in the dawn of the Industrial Age: The dawning of mind – forged manacles in an age of rules, emotion in an age of reason; other – wordly presences involved in this world’s work; genius called madness. The greatness of Blake lies lies, perhaps, in his apocalyptic outlook than in his mastery

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    1800 and 1850. In English literature, the key figures of the Romantic movement are considered to be the group of poets including William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the much older William Blake. The Romantic Period took place during major social change in society. Poets and artists of the era used their work as a revolt against forces like the Industrial Revolution and the political and social standards of the Age of Enlightenment. They wanted

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    most stupid animals that could ever exist, but they are the most adorable when they are babies. In lines 5-8 it says, “Gave thee clothing of delight, softest clothing wooly bright; gave thee such a tender voice, making all the vales rejoice!” William Blake is trying to set the image that a lamb has all the characteristics of being a being that causes no harm to anyone, but at the same time, showing that it has no knowledge of the world. It is easily viewed that with no knowledge of how the world works

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    William Blake was a poet in the late 1700s that was conventionally unorthodox in his writing. In his work “Songs of Innocence,” Blake delves into the idea that children lose their innocence because of adults, organized religion, and industrialization. In his later work, “Songs of Experience,” it parallels the ideas in “Songs of Innocence” by showing the same situations from the eyes of an adult and how their innocence is now lost through their experiences. The two works, which are now often joined

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    The poet Blake documented one such question in his poem “The Tyger.” He had a desire to know about the tiger. His fascination with the animal leads him to ask many questions about it, specifically about its creator. Wondering who made the tiger, what its origin was, he asks in what place was such a fierce creature designed. In what he has been taught about the physical world, he finds a scary contrast between the character of the creator and the creation. Looking at the questions Blake did, with

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    The poem “The Lamb” written by William Blake is a part of his collection of poems called Songs of Innocence. His outlook on life when writing this collection of poems was optimistic and showed his great appreciation for life and especially nature. In this poem, which is pastoral in nature, Blake uses imagery to emphasize the innocence (bordering on naivety) that he sees in the world. This works in tandem with Blake’s pleasant diction to create a tone of comfort and well-being, which reflects the

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    The Lamb - William Blake Summary The poem begins with the question, "Little Lamb, who made thee?" The speaker, a child, asks the lamb about its origins: how it came into being, how it acquired its particular manner of feeding, its "clothing" of wool, its "tender voice." In the next stanza, the speaker attempts a riddling answer to his own question: the lamb was made by one who "calls himself a Lamb," one who resembles in his gentleness both the child and

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    beyond human comprehension, it is something that can never truly be answered by the God they are pondering about. For these reason, both poems are related by their abscence of comprehension of existential matters,or shortly the Sublime. In 'The Tyger"

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    "The Fish" Thinking about the text: 1) Yes, the authors attitude changed throughout the poem. In the beginning the author wrote that the fish didn't have any fight " He hadn't fought at all. He hung a grunting weight, battered and vulnerable" and towards the end she noticed that the fish was in fact a survivor "Like medals with their ribbons frayed and wavering, a five- haired beard of wisdom trailing from his aching jaw." 2) At one point in the text the author did compare her eyes to the fish's

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