Tyger Blake's "The Tyger" William Blake is a well-respected English painter, poet, and printmaker whose works went greatly unrecognized during his lifetime, but who has since been recognized as a major contributor to literature and art. Blake was born on November 28, 1757 in London and died on August 12, 1827. Through his work, Blake sought to express his political and religious views and often illuminated these works with illustrations that emphasized

Knowledge and the ability to learn, to think, and to analyze are terrible gifts, this interpretation says, not because they are not useful or powerful but because their power is both so capable of destruction and so limited in comparison with the giver/creator of this knowledge and ability. The clear religious elements of "The Tyger" also have bearing on this message of true knowledge and its fearsome un-attainability. The querying

1. First stanza: "Little Lamb, who made thee? / Dost thou know who made thee?" IV. Body paragraph III: Contrast with Tyger A. Ironically, the lion is "commonly known as the protector of the Lamb," (Damon & Eaves 242). B. The lion is "often associated with the Tyger, for they are both forms of wrath: the lion is spiritual wrath, inspired by pity…while the Tyger's blind wrath is purely emotional," (all Damon &

After this troubling question, the poet throws up his hands, no wiser than before. At the end of this poem of pulsating, drum-beat of questions in a sing-song of nursery rhymes, the poem returns to the beginning. The poetic drum retains the short metrical feet: "Tyger! Tyger! burning bright / in the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye/Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?" And the repetition

While the tiger may be a dangerous creature, it is still one of beauty, much like our own society. We encounter dangerous situations and beautiful scenes on a daily basis. In short, there is danger but there is also beauty. It is also interesting to observe how the end of "the Tiger" is much like the beginning. The poet writes: Tyger, Tyger burning bright In the forests of the night What immortal

I was surprised by a lot of the darker imagery in a lot of his work, especially in "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell." I knew that his religious views were controversial, but in his day it would not have been too surprising if he ended up in some sort of legal trouble over what almost appear to be Satanistic statements. A really like Blake's style, however, the way his