Tuesday, 5 May 2015

TheTyger by William Blake

William Blake (1757-1827) is one of the best poets of romantic period in English poetry.Although Blake was considered mad by contemporaries for his idiosyncratic views, he is held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity, and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work


William Blake

The
Tyger


Tyger Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hands dare sieze the fire?

And what shoulder,  & what art.
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet?
What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? What dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

When the stars threw down their spears,
And watered heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
did he who made the lamb make thee ?
Tyger Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye

Could frame thy fearful symmetry?




Critical Analysis 

the tyger is unlike any other poem in English language is not a simple poem but rather different.
in the poem  Blake has tried to present the beauty of god work and how he can create both lamb and  tyger , the tyger is a fearsome animal from whose body fear radiates his eyes burns bright, in short Blake wanted to say that there is beauty in every work of god.  

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