Fearful Symmetry

was meant to be evil. We the readers would never know because in the poem a question was asked but never answer. The question was “What kind of immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?” (Blake). In that question Blake was referring to God because God can create something beautiful but also fearful. The readers would not know if it was God who made the animal the tiger. There was another question that said, “Did he smile his work to see? / Did he who made the Lamb made…

The mere mention of the word death evokes fear, anxiety and restlessness. It preys on the young and old alike, the poor and rich, the strong and weak, the brave and the cowards. Because of its nature that remains to be a mystery, men and women have turned to poetry to vividly describe it, seeking to shed a glimpse of light on this “might foe” Such thoughts are captured in the two poems by John Donne, “Death, Be Not proud” and “The Tyger” by William Blake. For sure death is just a temporal state.…

the Tyger is seen having fiery eyes and burning bright. It is hard to understand how our creator could have created a creature like this. “Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright / In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?” (Blake, 2006, p.690) It’s as if the tiger was created from fire and looked at as a bad thing, not a good thing which was created by God, but created by Satan the creator of such…

The Innocent V.S. The Experience (An Analysis of Blakes use of Archetypes in the Lamb and The Tyger) “What immortal hand or eye, dare frame thy fearful symmetry?”(Line 23-24). The poems that will be discussed are “The Lamb” and “The Tyger” both wrote by William Blake. The poem “The Lamb” is about how unmindful and innocent the lamb is. In “The Tyger” he writes about the evil about the tiger and how the tiger knows a greater extent about the world. Each of these poems show an archetype. An…

he is no longer here. There is no more to his story. Lucretius presents two arguments to support the view that ‘death means nothing to us’; the first argument is the standard Epicurean notion of the soul, based on their physics; the second is his symmetry argument. The first argument, the standard Epicurean notion of the soul, states that death means nothing to us, because at death, the soul is detached, and thus we are no longer physically here. This argument relies upon their perception of…

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, which reinforce the idea of this strong, majestic beast. As we proceed to the first quatrains. Blake starts the poem off, by…

Andy Warhol, Paul Klee and William Blake are amongst the best artists and illustrators that ever lived. In this essay I will talk about I will talk about several works from these artists and illustrators. There were two of William Blake’s illustration that I found interesting as I have never seen something like it before. Blake writes and illustrates his own poems. Both illustrations seen here incorporate the poems within them and in a way interact with the text. One can notice that these…

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 the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry? ” It tells how the Tyger is bright and full of life in the dark of night, also being completely symmetrical with perfect beauty.the wording is in places uncommon to now because of…

teachings. From the very first line, the reader knows the “Tyger” is the focal point of this poem. The speaker marvels in the creature and, even though he appear terrified, praise it in a way. The “Tyger” is first seen as deadly and dangerous; it’s a “fearful” (l.4) beast with “deadly terrors” (l.16) that appears to have been forged in the “distant deeps” (l.5) of Hell. Undoubtedly created by an “immortal hand” (l.3), the speaker wonders whether Satan himself could be behind the Tyger. This…

Culminating Activity #1 The theme of the poem “The Tyger” by William Blake is about evil and reveals that the origin of evil can come from that of good as well. Blake is able to use diction to his advantage, as the narrator asks what made the Tyger’s heart beat. Blake wants the narrator to be unhappy with that person as he calls their hands and feet “dreadful”. The, he shifts to calling them hammers, chains, and anvils. This use of diction gives the tone a slightly darker edge to it. Blake is…