A Literary Analysis Of The Tyger By William Blake

The content in older writer tends to be more difficult to understand and the poem "The Tyger" by William Blake was no exception. The ideas of older poems aren’t necessarily hard to figure out, but just being able to read the poem is a major struggle so finding much of the meaning behind the poem was difficult. The first read through leads any of the reader to believe that this is just a child’s poem with no deep meaning behind it. After rereading the poem a few times, the theme seemed to pop more. The theme at first starts the reader off thinking it’s some adventure with the simple lines of "Tyger Tyger, burning bright, / in the forests of the night; " ("The Tyger" 1-2). The theme started to make a change as it began to talk about wings, and fire. This changed the poems theme into something more a majestic, and fantasy theme. The theme’s setting is some sort of a god 's land forest area. The time frame of this poem is set to be before man and possible even before any life inhabited the Earth. Since the poet is asking a question it leads the reader to believe the goal was also to give the poem an endless time feel, for anyone and everyone should be asking this question and the setting of this area never changes. Since the narrator is the one asking the question, …show more content…
The tiger being the most obvious for the simple lines "Tyger Tyger…" ("The Tyger" 1) . Next would be the stars which were slightly sneaked in. At first they just to seem to be stars but they could be thought as to represent angels due to this verse; "When the stars threw down their spears And water 'd heaven with their tears: " ("The Tyger" 17-18). Also wings were brought up earlier within the poem. Lastly there is "he". "He" could possibly be two people: a god, and a devil. The proof of this being possible is that both of the two times the word he is used, it seems there is a great difference in what he