Lamb and mutton

“I am the ghost in the shadows/I am the fear of the dark/I am the murderer of apathy/ an angel that's fallen” (Crown the Empire, 1-4) even though these song lyrics may seem a bit strange, it provides greater imagery of something luring in the dark with unknown intentions. In William Blake’s poem, “The Tyger” uses powerful imagery to describe the tiger. The poem states that tiger is a powerful and fearful creature through the use of imagery, symbolism, and theme. One reason why the tiger is a…

Blake’s “The Lamb” paints a picture by using aspects of imagery of how “the Lamb” in the poem represents the Lamb of God, which is Jesus. Jesus is the son of God, who created everyone and everything. From the beginning of the poem, it is quite obvious there is a double meaning for “The Lamb”, that being the lamb’s physical attributes as a literal lamb and its spiritual meaning as Jesus. William Blake creates a sense of imagery by explaining to us the lamb’s nature, the nature of the Lamb of…

The Tyger and the Lamb are both inspirations of God’s creation and are each other’s counterpart. The Tyger is alienated because of the fear, power, strength, and violence it makes people feel. The lamb is meek, giving the sense of happiness, joy, and pleasure which makes people feel the best out of life. As 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…

Poets, like William Blake, use sound devices in their poetry to increase the effectiveness of conveying or reinforcing a meaning. The poem, The Tyger, by William Blake, acquires many sound devices that contribute into giving the poem a complete meaning, while also acting as an eye catcher to engage the readers. The sound devices in Blake’s poem includes repetition, rhyme, assonance and alliteration. Blake’s use of repetition is demonstrated in his first and last stanza. In his first stanza,…

William Blake's "The Tyger" and "The Sheep" are both short ballads in which the creator offers explanatory conversation starters to what, at a first look, would have all the earmarks of being a sheep and a tiger. In both lyrics he utilizes distinctive symbolism to make particular intentions, and both ballads contain evident religious moral story. The differentiation between the two lyrics is much simpler to promptly understand: "The Sheep" was distributed in a Blake treasury entitled "The Tunes…

different writing techniques that interest the readers, Lamb to the slaughter snags the reader and keeps capturing them until they reach the conclusion. Lamb to the Slaughter is written by Roald Dahl, the story intrigues the reader with its eerie suspense. In the story Mary seems like the perfect wife, but when her husband tells her some unfortunate news that she is dumbfounded by the story turns. Mary hits her husband with a chunk of lamb and he crashes to the floor dead. As a result of being…

An Evaluation of “Lamb to the Slaughter” By: Roald Dahl Not many people look at their food and see a weapon. There has been some accidents in justice, but have any of them included where the law enforcement has eat the evidence? In ‘Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl, a wife is home and waits for her husband to arrive. When he arrives, he does not cooperate about dinner, his wife Mary gets angry, and kills him. In the short story “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl, it displays the theme of…

“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…

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 side and a dark side or good and evil. The lamb represents all that is good in the world and innocence while the Tyger showcases the opposite, focusing on evil, corruption, and suffering in the world. By describing the good and evil in the human soul,…

On the evening of Thursday, July 7th, 1990 detective Patrick was murdered in his house. It was Patrick himself who had been murdered by his wife, Mary Maloney. It was reported that she murdered him with a frozen leg of lamb. The reason of the murder was that Patrick cheated on her and had asked for a divorce. Police inquired close by stores and neighbours of Patrick’s home, according to the investigation, they were told that Maloney visited the grocery store before the discovery of the murder.…