Poetry by William Blake

could twist the tissues of the Tyger’s heart. The next question Blake asks is “when thy heart began to beat, / What dread hand? & what dread feat?” (11-12). Here, Blake wants to know that when the Tyger’s heart began to beat, did its creator regret making it and if its creation was a mistake. “Dread feet” (12) is a double meaning to the word feat. Feat means an achievement that requires great courage, skill or strength, meaning that Blake is questioning if the creator suddenly dreaded the…

For example, William Blake sought to understand God through spirit and imagination, in contrast to the typical theological view of God 'as an old man', a rational being who controlled the order of things. Blake wanted to break this unyielding portrayal of God. Blake was religious and interested in divine inspiration. In his epic poems he writes about visions of heaven and hell. Coleridge once suggested of Blake that his poetry and paintings enabled people to 'dig deeper' or understand more…

other areas of the world like America. The 17th century marked the beginning of an era called the Enlightenment which paved the road for an era later known as Romanticism. During this time frame, writers such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Montesquieu, William Wordsworth, and John Keats were able to express their thoughts and emotions through their various works. When considering the Enlightenment Era and the Romantic Era, one common theme seen between the two…

the ruling entity by which all things are measured and given meaning. But romantic poets questioned and challenged this god. Blake, Wordsworth, and others alike did not believe that time was an absolute ruler, but rather that it was a malleable object tied to the individual and influenced by his or her human imagination. Time did not rule the romantic poets. Romantic poetry seems to classify life with experiences rather than with times. An example of this can be observed in the contrasting…

Compare the way Blake and Heaney present strong attitudes towards society. William Blake and Seamus Heaney were both visionaries and social critics, who presented their strong attitudes towards society through writing critical poems in protest against the corruptions of society. Blake’s poems were based around the transition of idealised agrarian lifestyle changing to an urbanised society, written in the 1700’s. Heaney’s poems were written much later on during the 19th century, to present his…

“innocence” is defined in three different ways: “freedom from guilt or sin through being unacquainted with evil,” “lack of knowledge,” and “lack of worldly experience or sophistication” (“Innocence”). These three definitions apply to the persona of William Blake’s poem “The Chimney Sweeper,” which was featured in his poem collection Songs of Innocence. The chimney sweeper is guiltless, both legally and religiously, because of his young age that makes him “unacquainted with evil;” therefore,…

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 powerful creature because of the way the poet uses imagery to describe it. Blake states, “Tyger! Tyger! burning bright/ In the forests of the night” (1-2) to describe the tiger fur. However, Blake compare the tiger’s fur to fire. Fire…

William 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…

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…

Wondrous but Fearful Tyger William Blake’s “The Tyger” in Songs of Experience, written in 1794, describes the Tyger as “fearful” while appreciating its beauty. During this time, Blake was one of the first people to see a tiger; this inspired him to write “The Tyger” and paint the creature as a majestic but fierce being. Although the origins of the Tyger are questioned, the creator is referred to as “he” implying a male divine creator. While examining who or what created the Tyger, in addition…