The Tyger - Blake

Question 1

What is a central theme of The Tyger?

Answer 1

The creator as a blacksmith

Question 2

What is the significance of having the creator as a blacksmith in The Tyger?

Answer 2

Symbol of creative power and beauty

Figure of vitality, liberty and desire

Question 3

What is the structure of The Tyger?

Answer 3

6 quatrains in rhymed couplets

Trochaic tetrameter - last syllable dropped so lines end with a stressed syllable to give a strong/masculine rhyme

Question 4

Where are trochaic tetrameters usually used?

Answer 4

Children’s rhymes

Question 5

What is the significance of “did he who made the lamb make thee”?

Answer 5

Iambic not trochaic

Emphasises the unanswered question as it returns to trochaic in the next line

Question 6

Themes in The Tyger

Answer 6

Creation

The Sublime

Independence

Question 7

Who is the powerful figure of authority who exerts control and dominance over those who are weaker in The Tyger?

Answer 7

God