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    and stalagmites...Richard Parker’s tongue, the size and colour of a rubber hot water bottle, retreated and his mouth closed.” (pg. 179) Yann Martel didn’t create the image of the tiger being powerful or the fear it creates. On the other hand, The Tyger by William Blake did. For example, “[The Tiger’s appearance is] burning bright.”, “[Who] Burnt the fire of thine eyes?”, and “In what furnace was thy brain?” These metaphors show how powerful and fearful a tiger is because Blake use words such as,…

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    Though there have been many influential authors in the era we are studying, William Blake was very high on that list. Three of the texts that he wrote are called “The Lamb”, “The Tyger”, “Infant Sorrow”, and “The Chimney Sweeper”. From these four texts, you can get many archetypes that blake had. From the texts Lamb, Tyger, Sweeper, and Infant, the archetypes of innocence and youth, oppression, and struggles of the world can be found. Blakes first archetype is youth and innocence which is…

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    “Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.”(Book 6, Voltaire) An experience that can improve human life, where disappointment is the important passage from innocence to experience, which is the experience of our own self being. The innocence represents childhood, the period of naivety, honesty and honor. Whereas, the experience qualifies through the journey of…

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    of the spirit. This poem accepts what Blake recognizes as the more positive aspects of Christian values. It does not, however, focus on the negative or evil aspects of the bible. In contrast to the theme of “The Lamb,” Blake allowed the “The Tyger” to portray the negative or evil connotations of the bible. The poem begins with ,“What immortal hand or eye/ Could frame thy fearful symmetry” The speaker is asking a fearsome tiger what divine character created him. The poems goes on to say ,…

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    After the Romantic period Childhood was created and a division between adult and child was formed. In William Blake’s poem The Lamb great divine and supreme being of children is portrayed.”I a child an thou a lamb” connects children with innocence portrays them to be God like. This theme of a perfect, pure child was created and idolized during the Romantic era, however, the definition of a perfect mature adult was not addressed. In Lewis Carroll’s novel Alice in Wonderland, Alice is placed in…

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    Blake's Poem

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    Structurally, Blake composes the poem as a dramatic monologue utilizing an ABAB rhyme scheme and simple vocabulary. Much of the work uses an anapestic poetic meter, which is often characterized with childish cadence of literature. The composition therefore resembles perhaps a children’s hymn -- establishing the innocence of the boy which narrates it. Ergo, the very nature of youthful innocence is tied inextricably to the overall tone of the poem. Blake not only addresses the reader, but…

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    Allen Ginsberg’s “First Party at Ken Kesey’s with Hell’s Angels” and William Blake’s “The Tyger” both have the idea of describing a hellish world in common with each other. Many of the characters in both of the poems also describe characters that you associate with “hell” or a behavior that’s the opposite from good. In “First party at Ken Kesey’s with Hell’s Angels” Ginsberg uses the term “Hells’ Angels.” This oxymoron may try to imply that the angels, who are actually demons in disguise,…

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    The Tyger Poem

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    animal to describe a human rather than to give that animal the extra recognition. There are three poems in this section the only ones i really see that they're arguing more for humans are “The tyger” and “The Snake”. “The fish” on the other hand is talking more about the fish and its imperfections. "The Tyger" is a poem made of questions.This poem is often interpreted to deal with issues of inspiration, poetry, mystical knowledge, God, and the sublime, In all stanzas there are a series of…

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    The texts “I Escaped A Violent Gang” and “Making Sarah Cry” have similar themes of courage. Each text shows the theme differently throughout the text. In “I escaped A Violent Gang” the author had to go through different events needing courage. In “Making Sarah Cry” Sarah shows courage while standing up to her bullies. While both of these texts share a common theme, the mood of the texts is completely different. The memoir “I Escaped A Violent Gang” has a mood of sadness and is a bit scary…

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    A Tiger for Malgudi is interspersed with various incidents and characters that depict the conflict between tradition and unconventionality. The lively descriptions of villagers with their characteristic terror of the primitive man and of the tiger as “a cave-dweller and jungle beast” carry the reader back to the savage times when man’s foremost preoccupation was to save his race from utter annihilation at the hands of wild beasts. The village and the sheep are symbols of innocence and unalloyed…

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