The Tyger Flashcards
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About
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- Consists almost entirely of questions about the nature of God and creation.
- Specifically whether the same God that created defencless animals, such as a Lamb also created dangerous animals like a Tiger.
- Why does God allow evil to exist?
- Also articulates the curiosity and phenominon of the power of a tiger and in addition the power of nature and God
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Summary
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- Speaker directly adresses tiger, asks which immortal being could have created tigers beauty
- Wonders where tigers eyes were made, did the creater have wings, whos hand is daring enough?
- Imahines effort and skill into creating tiger,
Who would be strong enough to build the tiger. - Tools the creater must have used, what terrifying creature would be so daring
- Speaker mentions when stars gave uo their weapons and rained their tears on heaven. Did creater look at tiger and smile. Was tiger made by same creater as the lamb
- Who would dare
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Existence of Evil
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- Awe at the marvels of Gods creation,
- Tiger, represents fear, threat.
- Left unanswered, reader to consider.
- Tiger same consideration as lamb, suggests without fear there would be no love and joy.
3
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‘burning brightly’
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- Visually impressive, dangerous
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Creativity
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- Creation of the tiger requieres effort, imagination. Necessary to create something like this.
- Good creation needs to have a more dangerous element to be authentic and honest.
- Poem is create. ‘framing’ symmetry’ visual artist.
- Tiger linked with fire, Allusion to the Green myth of Prometheus, who stole fire and gave it to humanity, punished.
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‘distant deeps’
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- Alliteration, almost unemaginable, uncertainty.
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‘On what wings dare he aspire’
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- Angels, fallen angels. chain of events.
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‘when thy heart began to beat’
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- regular meter,
- rhythm of the tigers heart.
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‘hammer’ ‘chain’ ‘furnace’
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- noise industrial factory, assonance.
- Blake an engraver.
- Industrial revolution, drift between human kind and the natural life
8
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‘threw down their spears’
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- Rebellion angels admit difeat, similat to Paradise Lost Miltons.
- Gods power
8
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‘Did he smile’
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- Is God glad to bought evil into existence.
- Anaphora, poems key moment.
- Limits of the speakers understanding, limits of human understanding
9
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‘Tyger Tyger burning bright’
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- Refrain,
- ## Last stanza, who would dare instead of who could,
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The tiger Symbol
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- Tiger represents an aspect of God, God being violent.
- Satan created?
- less about the tigers, more about large concepts humanity finds hard to comprehend.
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Fire Symbol
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- Tense atmosphere
- connection to hell
- fire necessary
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Industrial Tools
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- Creativity
- Industrial revolution
13
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Apostrophe
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- adresses speaker using apostrophe, brings the reader near the tiger whilse the poem describes the tigers moment of creation (distant event)
- Tiger is a threat, shadowing/trailing the lines but never appears.
- Constant presence unavoidable terror.
- Similiar to the Lamb, symmetry between the two poems. God’s intelligent design for the universe
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‘What?’
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- Anaphoric,
- Interrogation
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Consonance
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- Figure of speech in which same consonant sound repeats within a group of words
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‘immortal, frame, symmetry’
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- Consonance, subtly beautiful,
- Poet’s skill
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‘twist’ and ‘sinews’
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- Physicak exertion
- toughness
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Paradox
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- God and the Tiger
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rhyme scheme
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- Rhyming couplet, memorable
- symmetryu
- patterned lines, God has a plan
- impulsion
