THE TYGER Flashcards
‘tyger’
Old romantic spelling
When was it written?
Before the Romantic period
‘burning bright’
Plosive alliteration
Powerful and gripping
‘tyger, tyger’
Epizeuxis
‘burning’
Industrialisation
Hellish
‘what immortal hand or eye’
God?
Synecdoche
We don’t understand what he looks like
Biblical semantic field throughout
‘could frame thy fearful symmetry’
Question has not been answered
Hasn’t been answered even at the end
Cyclical structure
‘fearful symmetry’
Shows attractiveness of satan
Oxymoron
‘could twist the sinews’
Visceral language
Sibilance
Consonance
God creator
Twisted evil
‘dare seize the fire’
Greek mythology
Prometheus and Icarus
‘?… ?…?’
Repeated questions
Shows desperation of speaker to understand
‘what dread hand’
Repeated synecdoche of creator
‘when the stars through down their spears’
Lucifer mourning star?
Refers to battle in the heavens
‘he who made the lamb’
Contrast of lamb and lion
Different connotations
What is it about?
Biblical
What is the nature of God?
Why God made that creature?
Asks god what could make evil
Refers to garden of eden
Tiger symbol of hell
structure and form of the tyger
- romantic poem
- trochaic tetrameter
the tyger themes
- creation
- religion
- awe and wonder - majestic tyger
language in tyger
- symbolism of the tyger - ability of god to make something so fearsome and dangerous
- semantic field of blacksmith language - shows how there was real effort and difficulty to making it so amazing and that nothing this amazing could be natural.
- lamb - refernce to christaintiy - symbol of christ and innocence - juxtaposition with tyger complete opposite
