'The Tyger' Essay Plan = Evil
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- The Tyger = Evil
- Language
- Plosive 'b' alliteration
- Makes the phrase more colourful and vivid. Close repetition of the sound creates a kind of intensity meant to conjure the intense bright light emitted by a fire. Aural and visual effect.
- Rhetorical questions
- Questioning how God could have made both the lamb and the tiger
- Questions the creator's ability to create something so mighty
- Old Testament God, Jahweh - similarity to New Testament God?
- Refrain of the last stanza
- Questions the creator's ability to create something so mighty
- Old Testament God, Jahweh - similarity to New Testament God?
- Questions the creator's ability to create something so mighty
- Questions the creator's ability to create something so mighty
- Questioning how God could have made both the lamb and the tiger
- Apostrophe brings the reader nearer to the tiger. Acknowledges the existence of the tiger though it seems to be far away. Also mirrors 'The Lamb' poem.
- Symbol of industrial tools
- - Noisy and fiery atmosphere of a metal workshop. - Symbolise creativity - Invokes the Industrial Revolution - If the tiger represents a kind of evil, then perhaps this extends to industry too
- Allusion
- 'what the hand, dare seize the fire?' alludes to the Greek myth of Prometheus, the deity who stole fire from the gods and gave it to mankind
- Refrain of the last stanza
- Plosive 'b' alliteration
- Structure
- X6 Quatrains
- Regular, musicality, easy to memorise
- Unity & cohesion of God
- AABB rhyme scheme
- Times when the metre sounds more iambic than trochaic, e.g. Line 11 sounds like the beating heart is describes
- Sense of forward propulsion. Couplets are highly memorable.
- Refrain
- Metre: Trochaic catalectic.
- X6 Quatrains
- Interpretations
- Colonial reading
- Hugh Munro mauling
- Sultan Tipu "Tiger of Mysore"
- Irony: Hugh's father had been hunting him
- Xenophobia in England
- Threats from home and abroad
- Sultan Tipu "Tiger of Mysore"
- British imperialism in India
- Tigers indigenous to India
- British East India Company
- Blake = Anti-imperialist
- Hugh Munro mauling
- Christianity: Blake was a devout Christian, though not in the conventional sense
- French Revolution
- French Revolutionaries slaughtered hundreds of aristocrats and priests
- September Massacres of 1792
- Regularly referred to as 'tigers' by British press
- French Revolutionaries slaughtered hundreds of aristocrats and priests
- Christianity
- Problem of evil
- Old Testament vs. New Testament
- Mirrors 'The Lamb'
- Colonial reading
- Thematic link
- Lamb = goodness
- Tiger = evil
- Poem is an extension of themes in 'Songs of Innocence' and 'Songs of Experience' which juxtapose opposing sides of human nature - comparing and contrasting innocence with corruption
- Lamb = goodness
- Language
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