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    human beings. This collection of poems includes The Tyger, a partnered poem in the series with The Lamb. Blake offers a new way of interpreting God through His creations in The Tyger. Blake demonstrates the fierceness of the tyger’s creator throughout the poem. The tyger is viewed as a vicious creature that people view as a threat to their lives in many cases. A creature so evil to be created by a God depicted as loving baffles many people, Blake included it would seem. The narrator asks, “What immortal

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    Ferociously Created (Favorite Poem Written by William Blake: The Tyger) Poetry often has a way of speaking to certain people. Maybe not everyone can connect to every poem, but more so a specific poem. Maybe they can relate something that happened to them in their life that is similar to that in the poetry. Many times that is the case, sometimes others just simply like poems as well. They hear the words that it is saying and get exactly what it is trying to say and it speaks to them. This is a great

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    would place their trust in the blacksmith to forge high quality armour and weapons. The blacksmith was held in high regard for a lower-class citizen, and became a sort of anomaly in the hierarchy of a kingdom. William Blake evokes the image of a blacksmith as creator in his poem “The Tyger” to comment on the social and political situations of the times. He chooses a rough, rude and labour-driven artist as a way of rejecting the aesthetic features of art for more practical, albeit destructive forms.

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    William Blake was known to be a mystic poet who was curious about the unknowns in the world, and strived to find all the answers. Does God create both gentle and fearful creatures? As a questioned asked in the poem “The Tyger” William Blake pondered on why an all-powerful, loving God would create a vicious predator, the Tiger, after he created a sweet, timid, harmless animal, the lamb. The theme of this poem surrounds this idea of why the same creator would create both a destructive and gentle

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    These wise words of King James verse (1:5) of the bible portrays an underlying message that although we should follow in God’s path, we are not expected to follow blindly. Likewise, in the poem “The Tyger” by William Blake, it’s theme is a reflection of what this quote implies. Throughout this poem, Blake explores the possibility of questioning God while using the structure of the poem, as well as the irony of God’s character, and several sound devices in hopes of communicating a message, that to question

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    “The Tyger” and Tragedies William Blake wrote a set of poems in his collection Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. Some of the poems in each collection were meant to be read together to show the difference between innocence and experience. Many people question why Blake wrote a two part series to his poems and what they could actually mean. Two specific poems, “The Lamb” and “The Tyger,” were meant to be read together. “The Lamb” is a part of Blake’s Songs of Innocence and “The Tyger” is

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    that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible” (Colossians 1:16). William Blake wrote poems about this very subject. In his twin poems, “The Lamb” and “The Tyger”, Blake uses different literary techniques such as sound, imagery and symbolism to echo the common theme of creation along with how it is viewed differently. William Blake’s use of sound in his poems, “The Lamb” and “The Tyger”, enhance the central idea of creation and the question of how one God can create such different

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    and event that has ever existed may have had bad effects in one situation, but good effects for another situation. And every human, by extension, has aspects about them that can be viewed as both good and evil. In his poems, “The Tyger” and, “The Lamb”, author William Blake explores the ideas of duality, and how each thing must have an equal opposite. He uses both these poems to further ruminate on this dichotomy and brings up many questions in the context of religion. He seeks to point out that in

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    "The Tyger" by William Blake, has many different translations, however its primary reason for existing is to address God as a maker. Its graceful style produces a striking picture that urges the reader to picture the Tyger as a scary and terrifying creature. The speaker keeps the theme, regardless of whether a similar God who made the lamb, a delicate animal, could have additionally framed the Tyger and all its dark sides. This idea is used through numerous tools including rhyme, redundancy, allusion

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    In William Blake’s “The Tyger,” the tone shifts from evil to good and conveys the theme of balance and the harmony that balance can have. that changes tone throughout the poem. The poet is explaining the evil and the good and reveals the concept of yin-yang or balance. The concept behind the yin-yang is the balance of God and Satan. The quotes “Burnt the fire of thine eyes” and “Did he who made the Lamb make thee?” are explaining distinctive themes that Satan and God have. In the second stanza

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