The Tyger Poem Analysis

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blackening church appals". By stating these, he refers to the rotten government and corrupt institutions like the church which allow child labor, prostitution, and bloody wars. In the last line, when he says "And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse." he puts his blame on the legal marriage of his day which restricts the romantic love. On the other hand, Wordsworth has an optimistic and positive view of London. Because he has lived in a countryside area and has described the natural beauty of places around himself, he pays attention to the natural beauty and perfectness of London unlike Blake. But he is also criticizing the London of today who has lost his virtues of happiness, religion, and art. He also relates Milton to natural things like the sea. This attribution to nature is the highest degree for a poet in his view.
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The poet by using smithing imagery for the creation of tiger wants to show the contrast between the natural world and the industrialization. As I said before, his visionary religious beliefs caused his visionary poetry to assert deep truths about the universe. The effect of industrialization also caused him to say that a mechanical hand maybe has created the tiger.
"School Boy" is another poem by Blake which condemns the society restrictions on human soul. When he says "to rise in a summer morn", he means that the child loves freedom and outdoors and going to school takes all happiness from him. In fact, he is criticizing the educational system of England which, he believes, destroys the purity and creativity of the children. He believes that freedom of imagination offered by nature is superior to repression of soul offered by education.
Now it’s the time to look at Wordsworth's some other poems which seek the theme of nature. "The Tables Turned", "I wandered lonely as a cloud", and "Resolution and Independence" are among these

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