Theme: Vivid imagery & Religion Type: Six quatrains of rhyming couplets Background Made of questions Addressing the tiger, the speaker questions its creation Often interpreted to deal with issues of inspiration, mystical knowledge and God Blake contemplates about what kind of God could design and create such an awesome creature First verse – clearly evokes…
The two poems written by William Blake feature animals that are antithetical, one symbolizing the goodness, peace, harmony and unity in the world whilst the other the presence of darkness in the world. Blake makes a similarity between a lamb and a child which are both gentle, mild, and crooning, giving us the sense of…
O Rose, thou art sick! Like in many of Blake’s poems, an exclamation mark is used where he comments on an issue that seems obviously atrocious to him, but the rest of the world is seemingly oblivious to it as they do nothing to change it. “Rose” – could symbolize the natural world. Could symbolize…
William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience contain parallel poems that contrast innocence and experience. Two such poems that share the name “The Chimney Sweeper” both depict a young boy working the deadly job of a chimney sweeper but in startlingly different ways. The narrator of “The Chimney Sweeper” in Songs of Innocence lives…
The poem “Ah! Sun-Flower” by William Blake is both beautiful to the eyes and pleasant to the ears. However, its content entails much more than the name suggests. After closely reading the poem, one learns that Blake’s intentions lie far into the depths of human thought of the afterlife. Specifically, Blake addresses who reaches the…
The statement that “Beauty is truth; truth, beauty” does not hold to be a correct implication for everyone as far as life goes or the poem “London” goes. This poem written by William Blake, is about life as he saw it in that time frame and environment of society. In Blake’s, poem the reality or…
William Blake’s ‘The Tyger’ is a comprehensive poem that poses questions to the reader such as, what is ‘The Tyger’? What is its creation? Blake also uses the tiger as a metaphor for the good and evil in the world. Blake emphasizes the tiger’s creation by the repetition of “Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright” (1 &…