TYGER AND LAMB
COMPARISON
BY Nirvan Teckchandani
COMPARISON
• The Tyger Contrasts the lamb of “Songs of innocence.”
• The Tyger is the symbol of the fierce forces of the soul.
• It is an antitype to the sweet hymn of the lyric “The lamb.”
• Both of theses poems describe the wisdom of god.
TYGER VS LAMB
• Both of these creatures are the to aspects of the same soul.
• The soul is none but god
• The lamb represents the meekness, simplicity and innocence of the soul
while Tyger stands for the wrath and harsher side
TYGER FIGURES OF SPEECH
• Assonance: Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds in the same line such and
sound of /I/ in “Tyger, Tyger Burning bright”
• Metaphor-it a figure of speech used to compare two objects or persons different in
nature.EG: “in the forests of the night", he compares the tiger with darkness and
repression.
• Personification-personification is to attribute human qualities to inanimate things.
Blake has used personification in the fifth stanza where he considers stars and
humans: “When the stars threw down their spears and water’d heaven with their
tears.”
• Alliteration-is the repetition of the consonant sounds in the same line such as Tyger,
Tyger, Burning bright
• Symbolism-Symbolism is using symbols to signify ideas and qualities, giving them
symbolic meaning that are different from the literal meanings, like the Tyger
represents the evil and beauty
LAMB FIGURES OF SPEECH
• Symbolism-symbolism means the use of symbols to signify the qualities by
give them different meaning that are different from their literal meanings like
“Lamb and Child” Both are the symbols of chastity and innocence
• Imagery-Imagery is used to make the readers perceive things with their five
senses like “softest clothing wooly bright.”
• Alliteration- Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds In the same line
such as the sound of /L/ in “ Little Lamb I’ll tell the thee.”
WILLIAM BLAKE
• William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and
printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his life, Blake is now considered a seminal figure
in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age.
• Willian Blakes Popular poems are:
• The Little Black Boy
• Holy Thursday
• The Sick Rose
• Auguries of Innocence
• The Chimney Sweeper
• Love's Secret
• The Tyger
• Cradle Song
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