The Tyger By William Blake Romanticism

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Nature’s Morality Embedded In Romanticism Since the beginning of creation man has always strived to learn more about himself and the world around him. One of the most prominent ways that man can connect with their inner self and find peace with the world around them, is to write and read different types of poetry. Starting from the streets of Athens with the philosophical and artistic minds of the Greeks, poetry quickly moved East, hastily engulfing the entire globe because of it’s ability to answer questions and power to put into words what the average man cannot explain. Today, as scholars and students study the evolution of literary advances, the Romantic period of poetry is accredited to some of the greatest expletory missions of self and spiritual revolutions of mankind. The Romantic period of poetry includes some of the most influential and well-known poets of all time. Perhaps the most prominent poet of the …show more content…
Blake’s work has been studied for decades and remains relevant today because of his unique ability to relate his thoughts and questions about some of mankind’s oldest internal battles to what man can still see today in nature. In one of his most famous poems, “The Tyger,” Blake uses repetition and imagery to detail the nature of a tiger in the wild to illustrate symbolism between the tiger and man and the importance of the relationship between all things created. Decades after it’s creation, readers still study The Tyger and it’s repetition to connect man and creation through the lullaby of reoccurring questions provoking one’s inner spiritual revolution. In his poem, The Tyger, Blake starts off with repetition, almost in a chant; to flow into his question filled stanzas figuratively interrogating a wild tiger about it’s creation. The lyrics first 2 lines “Tyger Tyger, burning

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