Blake Shelton

childhood, the period of naivety, honesty and honor. Whereas, the experience qualifies through the journey of the human spirit, the disappointment that comes from it, the harsh reality of adulthood. “I am a child and thou a lamb.” (Book 5, 217) William Blake, portrays the dependency of a child with their parents, which can be an example of pure innocence, also…

From rereading this poem “The Tyger” by William Blake multiple times. I can see that this poem is all about him asking this majestic, beast which resembles a tiger, many different questions about it. To start off, this poem is using four quatrains which contains two rhyming couplets in each. It also contains seven syllables in each line besides for this phase “Could frame thy fearful, symmetry” which contains eight syllables in it. Here the rhyming couplets are used as a sense of repetition,…

The central idea in the poem “America” by Claude McKay is that even though America is strong and powerful in sometimes negative ways, the poet loves and respects her for those qualities. The poet’s usage of analogies contributes to the central idea of the poem by describing the harsh qualities of America. McKay compares the relationship between a citizen and America to a person having a tiger’s tooth sunken into their throat when he says “And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth, / Stealing my…

understand: "The Sheep" was distributed in a Blake treasury entitled "The Tunes of Blamelessness" which delineated life through according to the credulous, though "The Tyger" was composed after six years and included in the Blake add-on collection "The Melodies of Experience" which portrayed life in a considerably more reasonable and agonizing light. Both lyrics impart a typical AABB rhyme plan and they are both in standard…

“The Lamb” and “The Tyger” are two of William Blake’s works which come from two of Blake’s most famous collections of poetry: Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. Both poems speak about the creation of different beasts at the hand of a single creator. In these two poems William Black makes the reader question who creates good and bad. How can god make something so nice and delicate and on the other hand something so fearful at the same time, and why did the creator create two opposite…

Good and Evil An illustrated collection of poems entitled, Songs of Innocence and of Experience, written and illustrated by William Blake shows a variety of perspectives. The innocent and pastoral world for a child pitted against a world of corruption and repression for adults. The same situation or problem is first presented through the perspective of a child and then shown from experience. The poem “The Lamb” is the counterpart for “The Tyger”, which shows two sides to the human soul: a bright…

William Blake’s techniques used in the poems, “The Lamb” and “The Tiger,” in Songs of Innocence and Experience help him develop his theme of “humanity becomes aware of evil as it sees nature being corrupted.” The lamb represents the innocence, and the tiger represents evil and corruption. The theme is conveyed through Blake’s diction. The author’s diction in “The Lamb” heightens the theme the poem portrays. In “The Lamb,” the speaker is asking the lamb who gave it its “tender voice” and…

William Blake was a second generation philosopher from 1757 to 1827. Blake loved the world of nature and wrote several famous poems. An archetype is one thing that represents something else and Blake uses this in several of his poems, giving them an overall message or theme. Blake uses archetypes to express one thing that represents something else in the the poems he wrote named The Lamb, The Tyger, The Chimney Sweeper, and Infant Sorrow which expresses archetypes. William Blake uses…

By using diction, syntax, imagery, figurative language and a mystical tone “The Tyger” by William Blake reveals the beauty in the unknown. Her uses the language choices to tell you of something that was like a legend or myth. Ande through these processes we will learn of the mythical beast the tyger. In the poem, “The Tyger”the use of imagery is very important to the context of the story. In the very beginning it describes the Tyger in its awe, “Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of…

Through his poetry, William Blake sets up dichotomies to reveal aspects of the human condition. By pairing his two poems, “The Lamb” and “The Tyger”, Blake examples the duality and complexity of comfort. When one feels as if their previous beliefs and knowledge has been confirmed, one feels comfort in the order of their mind. However, when an experience goes against their previous understanding, chaos ensues in the mind. William Blake’s life experiences exemplify the comfort in order and…