William Blake The Tyger Tone

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Through a threatening tone, William Blake’s “The Tyger” reveals the process of the tigers creation and its ending by using syntax, diction, figurative lang. and imagery. Maybe, that is why he chose a Tyger, because a Tyger can be very threatening or intimidating to others. When he says, “ Could frame thy fearful symmetry?” instead of “Could frame your fearful symmetry” which shows diction because he tried to portray the readers of the tone threatening by using the word “fearful”, and he also uses “dread”. Blake uses “Burnt the fire in thine eyes” which shows imagery, because there are images of flames going up and burning going on in the readers eyes which is more threatening. Blake uses flames to portray imagery throughout the tone.

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