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THE TYGER Flashcards

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Proverbs and Idioms flashcards
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‘tyger’

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Old romantic spelling

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When was it written?

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Before the Romantic period

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‘burning bright’

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Plosive alliteration
Powerful and gripping

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‘tyger, tyger’

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Epizeuxis

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‘burning’

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Industrialisation
Hellish

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‘what immortal hand or eye’

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God?
Synecdoche
We don’t understand what he looks like
Biblical semantic field throughout

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‘could frame thy fearful symmetry’

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Question has not been answered
Hasn’t been answered even at the end
Cyclical structure

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‘fearful symmetry’

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Shows attractiveness of satan
Oxymoron

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‘could twist the sinews’

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Visceral language
Sibilance
Consonance
God creator
Twisted evil

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‘dare seize the fire’

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Greek mythology
Prometheus and Icarus

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‘?… ?…?’

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Repeated questions
Shows desperation of speaker to understand

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12
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‘what dread hand’

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Repeated synecdoche of creator

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‘when the stars through down their spears’

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Lucifer mourning star?
Refers to battle in the heavens

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‘he who made the lamb’

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Contrast of lamb and lion
Different connotations

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15
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What is it about?

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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

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structure and form of the tyger

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  • romantic poem
  • trochaic tetrameter
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the tyger themes

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  • creation
  • religion
  • awe and wonder - majestic tyger
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language in tyger

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  • 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

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