Wednesday, 11 February 2015

Specifically, what poetic imagery dominates William Blake's poem, "The Tyger"?

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"Tyger" is the dominant image of the poem, and the language which Blake uses to
describe the animal often connotes fire (e.g., "burning bright," "Burnt the fire
of thine eyes," "dare seize the fire"), which in turn connotes passion and
vitality. The color of the tiger also stands out in stark contrast to the darkness of "the
night," so that the connotations of fire, vitality and passion are emphasized even
more.

Later in the poem, in stanza four, there is industrial, machine , such
as "the hammer," "the chain," a "furnace" and "the
anvil." The language is part of awhere the speaker imagines that the tiger must have been
created in the blistering heat of a furnace, and that it must have been the product of great
force, hence the hammer and the anvil. The implication is that the tiger's color and the
intensity of "the fire of (its) eyes" is such that it seems only possible that it
emerged from such intense conditions.

There is also imagery throughout
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