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The Tyger Flashcards

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Metre

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Trochaic

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Predominant sentence type used in poem

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Interrogative

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Criticism of

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Protestant Christianity

  • theological query into the motivations of creation itself
  • builds upon religious Christian theme of its poetic predecessor and asks questions concerning what Blake believed to be the existence of evil
  • brings to light problems that would be the philosophical and theological cornerstone of his romantic artistry
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Form

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Six quatrains, assonance rune

  • pattern AABB
  • simple structure and vocab, reader able to understand main topics and concepts
  • evil and good
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‘Immortal’

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Poet refers to God

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What was the tiger a symbol of in the 1790’s

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the Parisian revolutionary mob - a metaphor for the things that were happening - terrifying nature of the French Revolution

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What is the poem actually about!

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Poem which looks at ideas of creation
- how could something that started off with such a virtuous intention (democracy and justice) that initially the French Revolution stood for - how could it turn into such a massacre

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What is in the rhythm?

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Trochees - pounding and relentless moving forward

A while reverse lines look simplistic they are actually very unusual for a nursery rhyme

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Fire imagery

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The hammer, the chain, the anvil - Blake imagining God as a Blacksmith working with a hard to manage substance

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‘Dread’

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Ideas of the sublime - reference to Milton (Satan)

- Satan tried to fly up to God to attack him - ambition

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Prometheus

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Stole fire from the Gods to give to mankind - imprisoned for 30,000 years

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Caesura

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Short sentences, short lines. Pause

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Questions

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Kind of rhetorical - no answer

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Innocence - Safety

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Experience -danger, ambition, dare, sense of complete audacity

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What do the key words and aggressive trochaic rhythm tell us?

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The poem deals with a darkly intense and awe- inspiring experience

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Poem on a metaphorical level

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Tigers can’t burn and nights don’t have forests

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Three elements of metaphors according to Richards

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A tenor - meaning behind it

  • a vehicle - image used
  • a ground - basis of the comparison
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What is interesting about Blake’s tiger metaphor

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It’s all vehicle and no tenor - what the tiger is intended to express is never made clear

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What is the tigers creation

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An act of confrontation and audacity

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How does the poem shift?

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Between ‘could’ and ‘dare’

  • implying transgression and disobedience
  • ending in ‘dare’ in last stanza is a direct repeat of the first expect for the change of verb at the start of the final line
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Rebellion and revolution

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Satan’s revolt in Paradise Lost

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Industry

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Unlike the lamb who is ‘made’ by God, the tiger owes its existence to a combination of human labour and industrial process

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What does stanza four do?

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Conserves the tigers creation in terms of industry - using a series of metonymy for the Blacksmith’s forge ‘hammer’ ‘chain’

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What was Blake repelled by?

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The industrial revolution for its objectification of human beings

  • this stanza has undeniable energetic and a fascination with what industry can produce
  • the worker and tiger are represented with a strange combination of body parts ‘shoulder’ ‘heart’
  • parallel drawn between the creature constructed in a ‘workshop of filthy creation’ in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein - another text which draws upon both Paradise lost and the Prometheus myth
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What does the lamb offer that the tiger doesn’t?

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Lamb offers the reader simple certainties, benign God of the New Testament
- Tyger presents creation as enigmatic and unknowable

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What is impossible in Blake’s creation poems?

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Faith

- ‘the tyger’ becomes a part of the Experiences poems pessimism and anguish

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What is the radical nature of Blake’s poems due to?

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It’s ambiguity and it’s lack of clear moral explanation

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What does Blake reveal?

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‘The forests of the night’ is a place where we may dare to aspire and unleash the ‘fearful symmetry’ of the imagination’

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Blake thought that Milton was:

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‘Of the devils party without knowing it’
- Milton tries to justify the ways of God to man - you can’t do this - he thinks he is so much of a wonderful poet that he can do this

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Milton’s characters

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The so called good characters have little to them where the characters who are vibrant and charismatic are the fallen angels and Satan

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What is different about the poem the lamb?

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There is no religious uncertainty

  • talking literally about a lamb and the lamb as a religious metaphor
  • gentleness, meekness and mildness

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