William Blake
“The Tyger” is a poem written by William Blake and published with a collection of poems in a work titled “The Songs of Experience” in 1794. William Blake was born in London in 1757 to James Blake a hosier (Morsberger,). Blake expressed a desire at the age of 10 to study art, which his father allowed, paying for his tuition and for casts to study at home (Morsberger,). At the age of 14, Blake was apprenticed to an engraver, learning a trade that would be valuable to him in publishing his own books in the future (Morsberger,). Blake died in August of 1827 with few knowing of his work as a writer, today he is regarded as one of the great English Romantic Poets (Morsberger,). In this paper will analyze one of Blake’s most popular poems; “The Tyger.”
“The Tyger” was written and published …show more content…
Blake begins his poem by using alliteration in the very first line and in five other lines, burning bright, distant deeps, what wings, began beat, dare deadly, he who, are examples of this.
During the course of the poem Blake refers to fire several times, examples being, “burning bright” “Burnt the fire of thine eyes” “What the hand dare seize the fire” and “In what furnace was thy brain”. This reinforces the idea of the creator being a blacksmith especially with Blake alluding to the tyger’s brain being in a furnace, and the use of a hammer chain and anvil during the process of creating the tyger.
As one reads the poem one sees the growing fear building up in every line of the poem emphasized in the change of words in the ending line of the last quatrain. The first and last quatrain are exactly the same except for one word. The word “could” in the last line of the first quatrain is replaced in the last quatrain with the word dare. This completely changes the tone of the poem, transforming wonder to something akin to
“The Tyger” is a poem written by William Blake and published with a collection of poems in a work titled “The Songs of Experience” in 1794. William Blake was born in London in 1757 to James Blake a hosier (Morsberger,). Blake expressed a desire at the age of 10 to study art, which his father allowed, paying for his tuition and for casts to study at home (Morsberger,). At the age of 14, Blake was apprenticed to an engraver, learning a trade that would be valuable to him in publishing his own books in the future (Morsberger,). Blake died in August of 1827 with few knowing of his work as a writer, today he is regarded as one of the great English Romantic Poets (Morsberger,). In this paper will analyze one of Blake’s most popular poems; “The Tyger.”
“The Tyger” was written and published …show more content…
Blake begins his poem by using alliteration in the very first line and in five other lines, burning bright, distant deeps, what wings, began beat, dare deadly, he who, are examples of this.
During the course of the poem Blake refers to fire several times, examples being, “burning bright” “Burnt the fire of thine eyes” “What the hand dare seize the fire” and “In what furnace was thy brain”. This reinforces the idea of the creator being a blacksmith especially with Blake alluding to the tyger’s brain being in a furnace, and the use of a hammer chain and anvil during the process of creating the tyger.
As one reads the poem one sees the growing fear building up in every line of the poem emphasized in the change of words in the ending line of the last quatrain. The first and last quatrain are exactly the same except for one word. The word “could” in the last line of the first quatrain is replaced in the last quatrain with the word dare. This completely changes the tone of the poem, transforming wonder to something akin to