whereas The Tyger‚ (from “Songs of Experience) was said to have been written at a depressing time for him and his family. The Lamb is a gentle poem‚ which is believed to have been written as if it was narrated by a child who is talking to a lamb‚ whereas the narrator in The Tyger is (in my opinion) quite an old man/woman who has experienced most of their life. I believe this because The Lamb has a naive‚ simple sound to it‚ almost as simple as a children’s nursery rhyme but The Tyger sounds like
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painting‚ theatre‚ poetry and such as methods to spread this new ideology. One piece of poetry that captures the Romantic period perfectly is William Blake’s “The Tyger”. The Tyger is a romantic poem because it has a focus on the supernatural‚ believes conformity is evil and expresses all of this with the use of nature. The Tyger focuses on the supernatural. Romantic poets often talk about the supernatural or a creator in their poetry. Romantics are very spiritual people; they just do not
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condescending and patronizing. “He fumbles at your spirit” a poem written by Emily Dickinson‚ published in 1924‚ Is an extended metaphor comparing “God” to a pianist. She described people as being keys “played” by “God”. William Blake’s poem “The Tyger” which describes his thoughts about having many questions but little answers. He questions who could make such a terrifying creature as the tiger. Blake makes a subtle suggestion that the tiger is a weapon‚ and questions how a fearful
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puts “distant” in there showing the reader that he was created somewhere far away that does not belong here. It continues into the next stanza questioning who made this Tyger. “What shoulder‚ & what art” (9) could have the strength to create something like this. The “art” is spoken about a type of work that was done to create this Tyger. It is considered art because of the complexity and how much meaning was put into creating it. The metaphors he uses in the poem‚ “hammer”‚ (13) “chain”‚ (13) “furnace”
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Euphrates‚ the hut he built near the Congo and watching the sun set on the Mississippi. He compares the African American history to the history of the river he speaks of. In the poems “The Lamb” and “The Tyger‚” the writer uses words that describe how the Lamb is one of innocence and purity. The Tyger is one that has the reader interpreting that he is one of evil and no remorse. It has the reader comparing the two different beings to what life is now as we know it. So when writers write their poems
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Within these two topics‚ Blake wrote many stories/poems that demonstrate the personality of innocence and experience. Both topics open our minds and forces us to look deeper into the text to see archetypes provided. William Blake’s “The Lamb” and “The Tyger” both model one of the pieces and opens our minds up into deeper thought. William
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Essay – Why is poetry important to our community? Poetry is defined as a work of literacy at which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm. Poetry existed from a very long time ago and was used for many purposes – to express the poet’s feelings‚ to record historical phenomenon and many more. Poetry was written and read by all kinds of people that weren’t necessary poets‚ but salesmen‚ lawyers‚ famers‚ doctors‚ scientists and many
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will allow the existences of suffering. The poems “The Tyger” and “The Chimney Sweeper” seem to talk about how the innocence of love or good things are ruined once you began to experience the hardship in adult life. For example‚ in “The Chimney Sweeper” shows how innocent children must undergo abuse of child labor by workers‚ as kids are forced into hazardous circumstances to earn money for materialistic items that we want. The poem “The Tyger” questions God intention‚ the poet asked multiple questions
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It has always been highlighten the kinship between literature and other types of art. Described‚ a play in drama‚ while read‚ a play is literature. Many adaptations on screen are based upon literature‚ mostly novels‚ even if‚ the majority of great plays were already filmed by which‚ it stimulated the growing process in a young individual. In prsent day‚ the requirements in writing a film has affected many writers in their style and structure of the novel. Most of modern fiction is written with the
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little. Songs of Innocence and Experience are about the "two contrary states of the human soul" as Blake put it. To confirm this he wrote some of the poems of Innocence with their pairs in Experience. Such a pair is "The Lamb" from Innocence and "The Tyger" from Experience. "The Lamb" consists of two stanzas‚ each one of them based on simple rhyming scheme like the children’s songs. The first stanza poses the questions while the second one is left for the answers. The questions are for the lamb‚ the
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